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 Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth on Friday thanked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for “completing our decolonisation” a day after the UK government announced to hand over ...
Top Republicans have warned that the United Kingdom’s decision to give up the Chagos Islands will boost China. Sir Keir Starmer, Britain’s prime minister, announced the end of 200 years of British ...
The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...
Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...
The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...
China hawks fear that Keir Starmer could have handed Xi Jinping a major win after ceding the Chagos Islands, in the middle of ...
Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands? - The African island ...
Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.
The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...
Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...