It is critical to recall that in 1964, to serve security interests, the UK and the United States (US) decided that Diego Garcia, the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago, would be an ideal ...

Mauritius expects to receive billions of rupees from the UK following an agreement under which Britain ceded sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to the Indian Ocean island nation. “England has ...

In a joint statement with Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth, Keir Starmer said that Mauritius will take control of the islands, ...

When Captain Robert Moresby sailed through the Chagos Islands between 1834 and 1837, to conduct the first survey of the archipelago by a British explorer, he was struck by the atoll’s remarkable ...

Putting aside the intricacies of the 1960 London-Zurich Agreement, one sees clear parallels, albeit on the surface, between that of the Chagos Archipelago and the two British bases on Cyprus.

The Government announced that the UK will hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in a contentious deal intended to end years of legal wrangling about the Indian Ocean archipelago.

The archipelago in the Indian Ocean is home to the Diego Garcia airbase that is used by the US military Alamy Stock Photo Sir Michael said that the decision to give away the Chagos Islands to ...

NEW DELHI, (ANI) – The Indian government played a quiet but crucial role in the background of the Chagos archipelago agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius. India firmly backed the ...