The Chagos archipelago and the Diego Garcia base are strategically located in the Indian Ocean, and the West is fearful they could fall under the influence of a pro-China Mauritius administration.

Mauritius's deputy prime minister has hinted that negotiations with the UK over the future of the Chagos Islands are being ...

International Court of Justice advisory opinion (2019) In 2019, the ICJ rendered an Advisory Opinion on the legal status of the Chagos Archipelago. The opinion had three main conclusions. First, “the ...

Sir Keir Starmer's deal with the Mauritian government for the Chagos Islands may be about to hit the buffers after the ...

The Foreign Office has suggested the agreement to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius is under review after previously ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer struck a deal with the then Mauritian government in October that his government said would secure ...

Resumed negotiations over a proposed deal to return the strategic Chagos Islands to Mauritius from Britain are not solely over financial compensation, the premier and a government official have said.

The agreement to give away islands after 200 years of British rule was one of Sir Keir Starmer’s first major foreign policy ...

New prime minister says UK’s proposed handover of the islands ‘would not produce the benefits that the nation could expect’ ...

When Sir Keir Starmer announced in October that he had reached an agreement with Mauritius to transfer sovereignty of the ...

Sir Keir Starmer has been facing calls to abandon his surrender of the archipelago after Mauritius’ new government ... the largest of the Chagos atolls. But a source familiar with the talks ...

Mauritius's deputy prime minister has hinted that negotiations with the UK over the future of the Chagos Islands are ... sovereignty to Mauritius over the archipelago but maintain a 99-year ...