A UN human rights panel says the deal "fails to guarantee" the rights of Chagossians.

The deal returns sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius, but will see the UK lease back a military base on Diego Garcia, the ...

Britain separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 before it became independent in 1968. A leaked internal Foreign ...

The UK has signed a £3.4bn ($4.6bn) deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control ...

The Chagos Islands are an archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Under the deal, the U.K. can continue leasing the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia, keeping the key military facility ...

Keir Starmer says the deal - which involves leasing the Diego Garcia base for 99 years, with the option of another 40 - is in the UK's national interest.

Mauritius deal to turn over the archipelago shores up Western influence in the Indian Ocean as China tries to increase its ...

Shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge told MPs the government was "following the legal advice to act definitively to our ...

Once seen as a relic of colonialism, the Chagos Archipelago with Diego Garcia has evolved into a flashpoint in global strategic ...

Once seen as a relic of colonialism, the Chagos Archipelago has evolved into a flashpoint in global strategic competition.

The decades-long Chagos islands dispute has finally entered a new chapter. The UK officially agreed to return the sovereignty ...