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

LONDON — The United Kingdom has signed a deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in an agreement Britain says will also ensure the future of a strategically important U ...

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

Chagos deal sparks uproar as the U.K. pays 30 billion pounds to Mauritius, loses critical territory and gives way to China's ...

The Tories are demanding to know how the military is set to pay for Sir Keir Starmer ’s £30billion Chagos surrender, after a ...

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the ...

People demonstrate outside the High Court in London, Thursday, May 22, 2025, after a British court blocked the U.K. from transferring sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius hours before ...

Campaigners launch judicial review to stop Government from signing away islands without consulting Chagossians ...

Dame Priti Patel asked whether ministers ‘are afraid’ of Labour backbenchers, who might ‘force them into another embarrassing ...

The UK-Mauritius treaty on the Chagos Archipelago will transfer sovereignty of the islands back to Mauritius, while maintaining an initial 99-year lease on the joint UK/US military base on Diego ...

As the United Kingdom has ceded the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, analysts are divided on whether the terms of the treaty ...

Members of the House of Lords stress that renewal of the deal in 99 years will depend on the goodwill of the then-government ...