Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the ...

A British minister denied on Wednesday media reports that the government could end up paying billions of pounds more to ...

Mauritius has indicated that it has secured more concessions from the United Kingdom in the Chagos Islands deal, raising the ...

There are signs of unease within the Government about the plan to hand over the British Indian Ocean Territory.

With reports the UK and Mauritius have agreed new terms on the Indian Ocean archipelago, a White House spokesperson told The Independent the US president has not given it his blessing ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday told his Mauritian counterpart, Navin Ramgoolam, that he ...

Donald Trump’s secretary of state challenged David Lammy over Britain’s deal to give away the Chagos Islands in their first ...

The British government’s negotiation with the Republic of Mauritius to cede the Chagos Islands has been a mess. At time of writing, expectations of an imminent agreement (or rather re-agreement, as ...

The United States has a stake in the Chagos group because the largest island, Diego Garcia, is home to a strategically important U.S. military base. For decades, Britain has administered the ...

The UK will be represented by outgoing ambassador to the US Karen Pierce - as questions swirl around her proposed successor, ...

Britain struck a deal in October to hand over the Chagos Islands while retaining control of the base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean, under a 99-year lease.

The UK will not finalise a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius until US President-elect Donald Trump’s administration is consulted. The British government ...