With British PM Keir Starmer seeking ‘strong protections’ for the US-British base on Diego Garcia, the Chagos Archipelago is ...

The Chagos islanders were expelled from the Indian Ocean archipelago, which is known as British Indian Ocean Territory, by the UK between 1967 and 1973 at the request of the US, which had leased ...

The joint statement released this morning said: 'Representatives from Mauritius and the UK held further productive discussions in London this week on the future of the Chagos Archipelago.

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.

Mauritius has hinted it has secured more concessions from the UK on the Chagos Islands. Keir Starmer has been pushing for a quick agreement on ceding sovereignty of the archipelago - with just a ...

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 ...