In a home still under construction on the steep outskirts of the Mauritian capital of Port Louis, the large crowd wearing ...

Navin Ramgoolam says the acceptance of a US presence shows he is willing to find common ground.

Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands? - The African island ...

The US has made a last-ditch intervention on the future of the Chagos Islands, demanding a seat at the negotiating table ...

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

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

UK taxpayers spent £1.3 million out of the foreign aid budget on a diversity scheme in Mauritius amid negotiations over the ...

Sir Keir Starmer has defended the controversial Chagos Islands deal after the Conservative leader branded it an "immoral ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base.

Keir Starmer has insisted that a deal on the 'legal certainty' of the Chagos Islands is 'vital to national security'.

The UK took control of the Chagos Islands, or British Indian Ocean Territory, from its then colony, Mauritius, in 1965 and went on to evict its population of more than 1,000 people to make way for ...