The Prime Minister will require an Act of Parliament to sign over the strategically important Chagos Islands over to ...

The commander of the Ugandan army, General Muhuzi Kainerugaba, threatened the American Ambassador William Popp with expulsion ...

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

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.

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 ...

The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...

The United Kingdom agreed on Thursday to give up control of islands that hold a secretive U.S. military base to ...

The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...

Mauritius will hold legislative elections on November 10, the presidency announced on Friday, just a day after Port Louis ...

Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands? - The African island ...