Plans to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius will return to the Commons, after the House of Lords ...

CRAWLEY, England (Reuters) - Chagossians living in Britain said fresh doubts over a deal to hand sovereignty of their islands to Mauritius had given them a "last chance" to demand a rethink, and ...

After the loss of Bagram air base in Afghanistan, Diego Garcia is a critical lifeline for the American military in the region ...

The government’s latest difficulties in the House of Lords over plans to surrender the Chagos islands is another humiliation ...

Tue, Jan 6, 2026 Patriotic peers have defeated the government four separate times in crucial votes on the Chagos Islands ...

The issue of self-determination and whether Chagossians were entitled to a referendum on the UK’s controversial decision to ...

This month marks 50 years since the arrival of the last of the Chagossian people in Port Louis, Mauritius. Over a period of eight years, the United Kingdom and United States had forced the entire ...

It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism. Here was a British government offering – how generous of them – to return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, ...

UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron told the Foreign Affairs Select Committee last month that the resettlement of Chagossians back in their homeland, including on the island of Diego Garcia, was “not ...

Recently, a UK court stepped in at the last moment to pause a significant deal that would have transferred control of the Chagos Islands from the UK to Mauritius. The Chagos Islands, a remote ...

LONDON — Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago protested outside the U.K. Parliament on Monday against a deal they ...

STORY: Frankie Bontemps is a Chagossian living in Britain. "You know my mum passed away in September this year and one of her last wishes was to go there to see her island one more time..." His ...