Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a U.K. territory that is home to ...

The United Kingdom is set to hand over the Chagos Islands to the small nation of Mauritius after the deal received approval ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the late 1960s, the inhabitants of the remote Chagos Islands were forcibly moved to make way for a military base. Now London wants to hand over the archipelago to Mauritius. Those displaced at ...

And now China hawks have expressed fears that Keir Starmer could have handed Xi Jinping a major win after ceding the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean, to Beijing ...

The UK’s handover of the Chagos archipelago and retention of Diego Garcia is a strategic move that raises questions about the intentions of major powers’ relations with small island nations.