Sir Keir Starmer has dropped plans to sign away the Chagos Islands to Mauritius this week ... the sovereignty of Mauritius over the Chagos archipelago remains unshaken.” A source on the UK ...

A British minister denied on Wednesday media reports that the government could end up paying billions of pounds more to ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday told his Mauritian counterpart, Navin Ramgoolam, that he wants "strong ...

Just three months into power, Labour pulled off what it billed as a diplomatic coup: ending a long-running dispute over the status of the Chagos Islands, one of Britain’s final imperial possessions, ...

‘Surrendering sovereignty over the Chagos Islands would be an irresponsible act which would put our strategic interests - and the interests of our closest allies - in danger. ‘The strategic ...

Now, The Independent understands that Chagossian Voices, a group representing people who originate from the Chagos Islands ... Mauritian sovereignty over the archipelago, which is located some ...

Anthea Jeffery says UK's agreement to cede islands to Mauritius should be rethought The Chagos Islands include the Diego Garcia atoll on which the United States (US) has constructed a vital naval, air ...

Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands? - The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – bu ...

Diego Garcia is the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean ... went on to evict its population of more than 1,000 people to make way for the Diego Garcia base.

and paves the way for the indigenous people of the Chagos Islands – the Chagossians – to resettle parts of the archipelago for the first time in more than 50 years. The deal’s detractors are ...

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.

A group of indigenous Chagossian people ... to the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia. And Mauritius will be free to develop a programme of resettlement on the islands, other than Diego ...