Britain has offered to pay hundreds of millions upfront to Mauritius in order to secure the Chagos Islands deal ...

Ministers have so far kept silent on how much it will cost the UK to lease the military base on Diego Garcia, the largest of ...

The UK is considering front-loading its funding package for Mauritius as part of a sweetened deal ceding sovereignty of the ...

Donald Trump’s team is looking for a way to veto the deal as a result of concerns over possible Chinese interference ...

Downing Street would not be drawn on financial arrangements, but it is thought Whitehall could stump up a number of years’ ...

The UK Government’s agreement on the future of the Chagos Islands has run into trouble following elections in Mauritius and ...

The UK has offered to frontload payments to Mauritius in a bid to finalise the contentious Chagos Islands deal before Donald ...

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.

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

Mauritius has ‘made a counter proposal’ in the Chagos Islands deal, reportedly demanding £800 million a year and ‘billions of ...

Conservatives have attacked "costly" plans to surrender the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, which has reportedly made huge ...