Diego Garcia is one of more than a dozen strategic outposts deemed vital to global security by contesting alliances. The main ...

Mauritius has been having fresh talks with the UK and has submitted changes to a proposed deal over the future of the Chagos ...

There are many reasons for despising Keir Starmer’s botched attempt to sell out our sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, and thereby to prejudice the future of a vital US airbase. The deal he ...

Britain had sought to secure an important US military base on the atoll of Diego Garcia by giving up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in the draft deal. Nigel Farage, Reform UK’s ...

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 ...

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

The Chagos Islands deal could prevent the US from keeping nuclear weapons on its military base, defence figures have warned. In October, Sir Keir Starmer agreed to give Mauritius sovereignty over ...

The UK rejected a report that a deal struck with Mauritius to cede sovereignty of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean to the African nation while retaining control of a key military base could ...

Mauritius has been demanding £800million a year and ‘billions of pounds in reparations’ as part of the beleaguered Chagos Islands talks, it emerged today. Sir Keir Starmer has been facing ...

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.

Mauritius says it has submitted changes to a proposed deal over the future of the Chagos Islands ... agreeing to lease it the largest atoll, Diego Garcia, for use as a military base.