When Captain Robert Moresby sailed through the Chagos Islands between 1834 and 1837, to conduct the first survey of the ...

Under the treaty of transfer, the UK will pay Mauritius rent for a 99-year lease, but 99 years is an “eye blink to China” and ...

Spain has been emboldened to ramp up its claims over Gibraltar by the Government’s surrender of the Chagos Islands, a former ...

In a joint statement with Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth, Keir Starmer said that Mauritius will take control of the islands, ...

MPs accused Labour of emboldening Spain after their recent “surrender” of the Chagos Islands, pointing out that the Blair ...

The UK will return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but Diego Garcia will remain under UK-US control. Chagossians, displaced ...

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...

Mauritius is an ally of China, and Beijing is licking its chops at the prospect of conducting electronic snooping of the base ...

Strategically located between East Africa and Southeast Asia, Diego Garcia serves as a surveillance centre for the Middle ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...

The British government unsurprisingly wants to draw a line under that sorry history. On October 3rd it announced plans to ...

The UK government's decision to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius surprisingly threatens the extinction of millions of ...