The UK-Mauritius treaty on the Chagos Archipelago will transfer sovereignty of the islands back to Mauritius, while maintaining an initial 99-year lease on the joint UK/US military base on Diego ...

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.

I have spent much of my life studying predatory fishes in East Africa’s coastal waters, but never have I been more concerned ...

First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

Mauritius is ‘likely’ to resume its campaign to secure a judgment on sovereignty against Britain unless the agreement is rubber-stamped, ...

On May 22, 2025, the government of the United Kingdom signed the much-discussed treaty transferring sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, which included a lease agreement for the ...

Chagos Archipelago is shownon the map. Screenshot from the video “The Chagos Archipelago returns to Mauritius on the Tv5monde YouTube Channel After decades of political conflict, the United Kingdom ...

Britain took control of Mauritius from 1810 when it was seized from the French. Between 1814 and 1965 the Chagos Archipelago was administered by the UK as a dependency of the Mauritius colony.

Negotiations to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius began under the previous ... that Chagossians would be allowed to settle on the outer islands of the archipelago, he told peers ...

Keir Starmer is facing humiliation on the international stage after experts at the United Nations (UN) called for his controversial deal with Mauritius on the Chagos Islands to be suspended. UN ...