The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending decades of British administration. The deal includes a £101 million annual payment to lease the base for 99 years, ...

Displaced islanders watched in despair Thursday as the government announced it was formally transferring the Chagos Islands’ sovereignty to Mauritius ...

Britain’s government has acknowledged that its removal of islanders was wrong, and has granted many citizenship and set aside some funds to improve their lives. But it continues to bar Chagossians ...

Sir Keir Starmer has signed a deal to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back a key military base for £101m a ...

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.

The governments of Britain and Mauritius have signed a deal settling the future of the Chagos Islands after overcoming ...

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

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has signed an agreement handing over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ...

Early on Thursday, an emergency injunction from the High Court had stopped the government from concluding the Chagos Island deal to hand over sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius.

The United Kingdom agreed to cede its control over the Chagos Islands to the Republic of Mauritius in an agreement signed between the two countries on Thursday.

Olivier Bancoult, the leader of the Chagos Refugees Group, described the occasion as "a historic day for us". "For years, talking to our children about Chagos felt like telling them a story about ...