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

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

In a landmark pact, the UK recognizes Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, including Diego Garcia, amid Indian ...

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

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

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

Asylum seekers have been held on a tiny British tropical island that has no permanent population for the last three years.

Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people ...

This historic move will also handover the sovereignty of Diego Garcia - which is one of the islands in Chagos used by the ...

The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years. The UK government confirmed yesterday ...

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...