Lucie Tiatos, 78, tells me in Chagossian creole (translated through a young man Maxwell who speaks both), that "if god keeps ...

when the French brought in enslaved laborers from Africa and India to work on newly established coconut plantations. In 1814, under the Treaty of Paris, France ceded Mauritius—including the Chagos ...

The Prime Minister, Dr Navinchandra Ramgoolam, expressed, yesterday, his confidence that there would be a positive resolution over the agreement between Mauritius and the United Kingdom on the ...

The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is ...

Allowing China to establish even a minimal footprint in the Chagos archipelago would dramatically shift the balance of power in the region and weaken U.S. deterrence. Trump must make it clear to ...

Slam poet Geraldine Baptiste pulls no punches when telling the story of her “Granpapa”, one of the 1,500-plus people ripped from a peaceful existence on the Chagos Islands by the British to ...

The Chagos Islands deal has been hailed as necessary ... near the existing US military base, if the archipelago isn't given to Mauritius. He wrote in The Times: "If you value UK national security ...

The majority verdict she supported effectively forced the UK to begin negotiations over the archipelago ... In its written submission to the ICJ on Chagos, China said it supported the ...

Lord Dannatt, former chief of the general staff, said it is “very hard to find good news” in the prime minister’s deal to cede control of the Indian Ocean archipelago, and raised questions ...

Donald Trump’s US administration will have a seat at talks over the future of the Chagos Islands ... resolution” to negotiations over the archipelago. A Mauritian government statement said ...

“LEFTY lawyers” who “hate and are ashamed” of the UK are partly to blame for the government possibly paying slavery reparations, an MP has said. The UK has been negotiating a deal with ...

Donald Trump has reportedly called for the US to be included at the negotiating table alongside the UK and Mauritius on the future of the Chagos Islands ... the Indian Ocean archipelago to ...