India has maintained strong support for Mauritius over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands and played a quiet but important ...

While the UK and US retain a key strategic military base in the Indian Ocean, the two governments remain apprehensive over ...

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 ...

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

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

An internal investigation has found that women in the submarine forces in the U.K.’s Royal Navy suffered multiple incidents of abuse and harassment by male submariners, some of whom were senior ...

The UK-Mauritius agreement over the Chagos Archipelago marks a significant step in decolonization, allowing Mauritius ...

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century. The deal – reached after years of ...

Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...

UK envoy Jonathan Powell on Friday slammed critics of the Government’s Chagos Islands deal, saying the US was fully on board, ...