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

In a home still under construction on the steep outskirts of the Mauritian capital of Port Louis, the large crowd wearing ...

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

The Prime Minister, Dr Navinchandra Ramgoolam, expressed, yesterday, his confidence that there would be a positive resolution over the agreement between Mauritius and the United Kingdom on the ...

President Trump must intervene to prevent this handover, which would damage U.S. national security and ultimately play into China's hands.

London (AFP) – Britain's government insisted Thursday that it must hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... recommended that Britain hand the archipelago to Mauritius after decades of ...

With British PM Keir Starmer seeking ‘strong protections’ for the US-British base on Diego Garcia, the Chagos Archipelago is back in the spotlight. What is the history of these islands, and why are ...

But both accept they must also get the approval of the United States, which operates a military base on the largest of the Chagos islands ... of only three of the archipelago's 55 islands ...

Since the 1970s, the UK and the United States have jointly operated the Diego Garcia military base on the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago, making the possibility of Mauritian sovereignty ...