The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.

I have spent much of my life studying predatory fishes in East Africa’s coastal waters, but never have I been more concerned ...

First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

Mauritius is ‘likely’ to resume its campaign to secure a judgment on sovereignty against Britain unless the agreement is rubber-stamped, ...

The Chagos Archipelago’s return to Mauritius marks the end of decades of diplomatic conflict between this island nation and ...

The Defence Secretary was asked about the upsides of ‘giving away’ the Indian Ocean archipelago as he spoke at a conference in London.

China has made only one public statement on Chagos Islands deal - Different claims have been made as to whether or not China supports the deal between the UK and Mauritius.

In 1965 the UK detached the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and several Islands from the Seychelles and created the new British Indian Ocean Territory. Three years later Mauritius became an ...

The Chagos Archipelago negotiations must clear several intricate sovereignty hurdles. The proposed solution involves a ‘triple delegation’ of authority, with the UK, Mauritius and the US. This model ...

Negotiations to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius began under the previous ... that Chagossians would be allowed to settle on the outer islands of the archipelago, he told peers ...

291. Once seen as a relic of colonialism, the Chagos Archipelago with Diego Garcia has evolved into a flashpoint in global strategic competition. Decades of dispute over the Chagos Archipelago in the ...