Keir Starmer is facing humiliation on the international stage after experts at the United Nations (UN) called for his controversial deal with Mauritius on the Chagos Islands to be suspended.

The U.K. recognized the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius’ claim to the Chagos Archipelago in an agreement signed May 22. While Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam praised the deal, it ...

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Britain separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 before it became independent in 1968. A leaked internal Foreign Office memo notoriously belittled the Chagossians as “a few Tarzans ...

Chagos Islands: What is the UK-Mauritius deal on archipelago and what's India's stance on it? Explained The Chagos Islands are a strategically significant area, with one of its islands, Diego ...

This baffling Chagos deal will forever haunt Keir Starmer The roll call of British politicians who put their fingerprints on the decision to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius ...

Displaced Chagos islanders fear they will never go home after a UK-Mauritius deal The Associated Press May 23, 2025, 12:15 PM ...

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 ...

The British government has signed a deal to transfer the Chagos Islands’ sovereignty to Mauritius. But it effectively blocks the return of hundreds of islanders who were born there. They were ...

The British government has signed a deal to transfer the Chagos Islands’ sovereignty to Mauritius.

Throughout the 1960s, many other islanders who thought they were leaving temporarily – for a holiday, or medical treatment -- would be told they cannot return to the Chagos.

The decision to return sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents more than a geopolitical realignment—it signals a potential turning point in how former colonial powers address ...