The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...

Mauritius awaits Trump’s approval for UK to hand over archipelago, with Chagossians at odds over what’s in it for them.

Britain's government insisted Thursday that it must hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius to secure continued access to ...

With British PM Keir Starmer seeking ‘strong protections’ for the US-British base on Diego Garcia, the Chagos Archipelago is ...

The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – but the UK government has ...

He has also said that a prospective deal on returning the Chagos islands to Mauritius would ensure the US maintained its strategic base on the Indian Ocean archipelago. "There is a disinformation ...

The agreement to hand over the Chagos Archipelago and lease back the strategically vital UK-US military base on Diego Garcia has run into difficulties (Alamy/PA) The UK has been negotiating a deal ...

the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. However, Ramgoolam, who was elected in November, has questioned the deal agreed by his predecessor and it is yet to be ratified.

emphasising that the remote archipelago has never belonged to Mauritius, while stressing their “Britishness”. The Chagos Islands are officially known as the British Indian Overseas Territory ...