David Lammy was heckled in the House of Commons as he defended the decision to give up UK control over the Chagos Islands.

Joe Biden pushed the UK into giving up the Chagos Islands over concerns the US would lose control of an important air base, ...

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...

Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius ‘completely the wrong thing’, says Johnson - Shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell also ...

Prime Minister Starmer hands over the Chagos Islands to its former colony, Mauritius. Detail of an illustration featuring the ...

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...

F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...

The UK has agreed to return the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius. This marks the culmination of decades-long negotiations and efforts to decolonize the archipelago.

Mauritius will hold legislative elections on November 10, the presidency announced on Friday, just a day after Port Louis sealed a landmark deal to regain sovereignty over a chain of islands from ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...