Britain will hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius while retaining delegated ...

The UK is “resolutely committed to all our Overseas Territories”, the responsible foreign minister said, after Argentina vowed to gain “full sovereignty” of the Falkland Islands. Stephen Doughty said ...

David Lammy, then Labour’s shadow foreign secretary, made a minor splash in Westminster when he floated the concept of ...

We might as well be governed by the National Union of Students. In pursuit of their juvenile, half-witted anti-colonialism, ...

Prime Minister Starmer hands over the Chagos Islands to its former colony, Mauritius. Detail of an illustration featuring the ...

Mauritius says the UK's handing over of the long-contested Chagos Islands draws an important line under the archipelago's colonial history.

F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

Mauritius will hold legislative elections on November 10, the presidency announced on Friday, just a day after Port Louis ...

The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...