The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is ...

Under the terms of its deal, Britain will give away the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean and pay billions over a century to lease back Diego Garcia, the island that hosts the strategically ...

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 ...

When Britain granted independence to Mauritius in 1968, the UK insisted the Chagos archipelago, particularly Diego Garcia with its crucial US military base, was vital to Western security interests in ...

In 2019, the International Court of Justice ruled that Britain's separation of Chagos from Mauritius was illegal, and the UN General Assembly adopted a non-binding resolution, giving London six months ...

the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago. However, the Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam, who was elected in November, has questioned the deal, and U.S. President Donald Trump's team ...

Nigel Farage has claimed Sir Keir Starmer's Chagos Islands deal will cost the British taxpayer £52bn over 99 years. The Reform UK leader made the claim at a rally in Wiltshire today. He also took ...

And all the while, expelled Chagossians say they are being sidelined. The U.K. agreed last October to hand Mauritius sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago, made up of more than 60 islands in the ...

the largest island of the Chagos archipelago. However, the Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam, who was elected in November, has questioned the deal, and US President Donald Trump’s team ...

The cost of the Chagos Islands deal is equivalent to more ... backlash from opposition parties over the plan to give away the archipelago. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has insisted that without ...