A former Foreign Office official has urged Sir Keir Starmer to reject demands from Mauritius for more money in talks over the ...

The UK Government’s agreement on the future of the Chagos Islands has run into trouble following elections in Mauritius and ...

Donald Trump’s team is looking for a way to veto the deal as a result of concerns over possible Chinese interference ...

Resumed negotiations over a proposed deal to return the strategic Chagos Islands to Mauritius from Britain are not solely over financial compensation, the premier and a government official have said.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer struck a deal with the then Mauritian government in October that his government said would secure ...

A former Foreign Office official has urged Sir Keir Starmer to reject demands from Mauritius for more money in talks over the Chagos Islands. Simon McDonald, who advised foreign ministers for five ...

But to accomplish this, all the indigenous population was removed, while in 1968 Mauritius became independent, but never ceased claim over Chagos, as the dependency it had been historically since ...

The British Foreign Office has reported that “the Republic of Mauritius and the UK have held ... on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Further on it said “both countries ...

The U.K. and Mauritius announced an agreement in October to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, a chain of more than 60 islands just south of the equator off the tip of India. Under the ...