If Britain wants to remain a reliable partner in our security alliance, it must be willing to defend its sovereignty. As much ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the ...

Representatives from the Republic of Mauritius and the United Kingdom held further productive discussions in London this week on the future of the Chagos Archipelago. In a joint statement ...

Britain's government insisted Thursday that it must hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius to secure continued access to ...

We will work with Mauritius to start a new programme of visits for Chagossians to the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia. And Mauritius will be free to develop a programme of resettlement ...

Note: This is part three of a three-part series on the proposed handover of the Chagos Archipelago from the UK to Mauritius. Part one — Why the Proposed UK-Mauritius Handover Would Be a Strategic Blow ...

The agreement to hand over the Chagos Archipelago and lease back the strategically vital UK-US military base on Diego Garcia has run into difficulties (Alamy/PA) The UK has been negotiating a deal ...

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, under a 99-year lease - an agreement that needs to be ratified. Since then, an ally of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and new ...