The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

The current deal involves Britain paying Mauritius £90 million a year for 99 years to maintain control of the US military ...

There has been scepticism about the proposed deal among allies of Mr Trump, including secretary of state Marco Rubio, but the ...

Sir Chris Bryant appears to undermine the PM’s case for the controversial move after saying a UN body could not close ...

The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...

Lucie Tiatos, 78, tells me in Chagossian creole (translated through a young man Maxwell who speaks both), that "if god keeps ...

As part of the £90 million a year expected to be paid to Mauritius to keep control of the base, Sir Keir has promised a ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called ”Footprint of Freedom,” is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos Island chain in the Indian Ocean. It is one of the most important and ...

It is unclear what the US stance on the deal is exactly, but last year, before he was in office, Secretary of State Marco ...

Exclusive: Communications minister Sir Christopher Bryant has rubbished claims that satellite communication could be removed ...

President Trump's intervention could see further delays after the UK and Mauritius reached a deal on the territory, pending ...