If Britain wants to remain a reliable partner in our security alliance, it must be willing to defend its sovereignty. As much ...

Mauritius awaits Trump’s approval for UK to hand over archipelago, with Chagossians at odds over what’s in it for them.

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home ... Late last year, Britain made the shock announcement that it would return the Indian Ocean island chain to Mauritius after years of court battles ...

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 and Mauritius said they’ve made ‘good progress’ in a round of talks to settle the sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean, including the stewardship of a key US ...

U.S. president’s shake-up of the security apparatus has complicated scrutiny of controversial British deal over Diego Garcia ...

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The British-American air base commands what has been called the Malta of the Indian Ocean, within reach of four of ... Mauritius’s claim rests on the ludicrous idea that, since the Chagos archipelago ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the ...

the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, under a 99-year lease - an agreement that needs to be ratified. Since then, an ally of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and new ...