He recalled that there was still a last colony in Africa, the Chagos Archipelago, which was excised from Mauritius prior to independence in total defiance of United Nations (UN) resolutions 1514 and ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday told his Mauritian counterpart, Navin Ramgoolam, that he wants "strong protections", including from "malign influence", for a U.S.-British military base ...

“This woman was born on Diego Garcia,” several people said at once, referring to the largest island on the Chagos Archipelago that was turned into a joint US-UK military base in 1971. Suzette ...

Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago Credit: Reuters Sir Keir has also defended the deal as providing “legal certainty” for the future of the base after a UN court ruled ...

Ahead of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s visit to the United States, Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said that ...

The UK government said it wouldn’t provide any details on a proposed multibillion-pound deal to continue operating a military base in the Chagos archipelago once it cedes control of the islands ...

Well, well, well. It turns out that an international judge who ruled against Britain on the Chagos Islands has also, er, ...

The UK has asked for "strong protections" for a joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. Britain agreed last year to hand over the archipelago over to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute.

Since the 1970s, the UK and the United States have jointly operated the Diego Garcia military base on the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago, making the possibility of Mauritian sovereignty ...

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 ...

Falkland Islanders have voiced their deep unease over Sir Keir Starmer's decision to cede control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, warning it sets a troubling precedent for Britain’s Overseas ...