The tiny Indian Ocean nation is tied with Monaco at the head of Nomad Capitalist's  Freedom Index 2025 after announcing plans ...

The council has seen its migrant housing bill soar to £18 million after an influx of Chagos Islanders increased existing ...

Dame Priti Patel asked whether ministers ‘are afraid’ of Labour backbenchers, who might ‘force them into another embarrassing U-turn’.

The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.

Campaigners launch judicial review to stop Government from signing away islands without consulting Chagossians ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faces calls to suspend his deal handing the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius ... returns sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius, but will see the UK lease back a ...

The real challenge facing the Mauritian government is how to turn a diplomatic triumph into sustainable economic development.

The U.K. recognized the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius’ claim to the Chagos Archipelago in an agreement signed May 22. While Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam praised the deal, it ...

Chagos deal secures strategic UK-US base while leaving islanders unmoored A U.K.-Mauritius deal to turn over the archipelago shores up Western influence in the Indian Ocean as China tries to increase ...

Britain separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 before it became independent in 1968. A leaked internal Foreign Office memo notoriously belittled the Chagossians as “a few Tarzans ...

The British government has signed a deal to transfer the Chagos Islands’ sovereignty to Mauritius. But it effectively blocks the return of hundreds of islanders who were born there. They were ...

Sir Keir Starmer has signed a deal to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back a key military base for £101m a year. The prime minister said the deal was the only way to maintain the ...