The Chagos Islands are in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia.

What is in the Chagos Islands deal? Sir Keir Starmer has signed a deal to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, which had been administered alongside the archipelago until 1965.

Chagos islanders fear they will never get to go home after UK’s Mauritius deal Displaced islanders watched in despair Thursday as the government announced it was formally transferring the Chagos ...

One hundred…million pounds. That is (roughly) the (annual) amount Britain will pay Mauritius to keep a military base on the Chagos Islands crucial to British and indeed American security.

The U.K. expelled the residents of the Indian Ocean islands and allowed the U.S. to build a military base. The U.N. Court says it must cede control of the islands "as rapidly as possibly." ...

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

The UK has agreed to the Mauritian request for a front-loading payment of the lease compensation of 90 million pounds ($110 million) per year as a sweetener to the Chagos islands deal, the Week ...

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

Britain said on Thursday that it would hand over the Chagos Islands, a necklace of tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, ending lengthy, sometimes acrimonious negotiations that ...

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

When the British government expelled Chagos Islanders from their homeland, it put a unique culture at risk of erasure.