Asylum seekers arriving on the British-owned archipelago will be shipped to St Helena, another UK territory more than 5,000 ...

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

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

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian ...

The United Kingdom's recent decision to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former British colony, was a ...

The British government unsurprisingly wants to draw a line under that sorry history. On October 3rd it announced plans to ...

Mauritius is an ally of China, and Beijing is licking its chops at the prospect of conducting electronic snooping of the base ...

The UK will return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but Diego Garcia will remain under UK-US control. Chagossians, displaced ...

Under the treaty of transfer, the UK will pay Mauritius rent for a 99-year lease, but 99 years is an “eye blink to China” and ...

In 1965, as part of the decolonisation process, the UK separated the islands from Mauritius, creating a new colony. From 1968 ...

Read more: Britain's ownership of the Chagos islands has no basis, Mauritius is right to claim them In a deal announced in a joint statement, London and Port Louis have agreed that all but one of ...