SIR Keir Starmer was branded a “hypocrite” for backing Palestinian statehood — after surrendering the Chagos Islands. The ...

The agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago, while retaining a ...

Tricky Dicky IT’S funny how the Attorney General has suddenly gone quiet amid claims that Sir Keir Starmer’s proposed ...

Mauritius is heavily reliant on offshore services and short-term fiscal gains. It is vulnerable to slow diversification, ...

The deal between the UK and Mauritius does not do right by the Chagossian people or compensate them for the damage of ...

The Chagos Islands (Google Maps) There is a joint UK-US military base on Diego Garcia, part of the cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean that makes up the Chagos Islands (PA Media) ...

Britain split the Chagos Islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean ...

THE HAGUE - A landmark opinion delivered by the United Nations' highest court last week that governments must protect the ...

The Chagos Archipelago became a British territory in 1814. In 1965, the U.K. formally separated the islands from its then-colony Mauritius, before Mauritius gained independence three years later.

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been known as the British Indian Ocean Territory since being administratively ...

"The Chagos Islands have been British since 1814. Only Keir Starmer's Labour Party would negotiate a deal where we're paying to give something away," Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said.