The British government unsurprisingly wants to draw a line under that sorry history. On October 3rd it announced plans to ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...

The United Kingdom's recent decision to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former British colony, was a ...

Mauritius is an ally of China, and Beijing is licking its chops at the prospect of conducting electronic snooping of the base ...

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

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

Mauritius' Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth announced that the return of the Chagos Islands marks the completion of the nation ...

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...

The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...