As part of the £90 million a year expected to be paid to Mauritius to keep control of the base, Sir Keir has promised a ...

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 UK has asked for "strong protections" for a joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. Britain agreed last year to hand over the archipelago over to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute.

The prime minister has pressed Mauritius on the need for the Chagos Islands deal to allow "strong protections" for the UK-US military base there. Sir Keir Starmer spoke to his Mauritian ...

UK's Starmer Wants 'Strong Protections' for Military Base in Chagos Islands Deal LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday told his Mauritian counterpart, Navin Ramgoolam ...

Britain struck a deal in October to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control under a 99-year lease of the military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of ...

The United States has a stake in the Chagos group because the largest island, Diego Garcia ... vessel and instead watching helplessly as the flag of Mauritius was hoisted over Chagos.

The British government’s negotiation with the Republic of Mauritius to cede the Chagos Islands has been a mess. At time of writing, expectations of an imminent agreement (or rather re-agreement, as ...

Surrending the Chagos Islands to Mauritius will jeopardise the ‘special relationship’ between the UK and US, one of Donald Trump’s top aides has warned. Robert Wilkie, who is heading up the ...

Suella Braverman has warned that giving away the Chagos Islands to Mauritius would be a "disaster" for the British government's relationship with Trump. The Conservative former Home Secretary, a Trump ...

The incoming administration will not, though, have any doubt about what the Conservative Party thinks about the “epic failure of diplomacy and statecraft” that is the Chagos Islands deal.

The UK will not finalise a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius until US President-elect Donald Trump’s administration is consulted. The British government ...