The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...

A British minister denied on Wednesday media reports that the government could end up paying billions of pounds more to ...

Britain's government insisted Thursday that it must hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius to secure continued access to ...

Mauritius welcomes the prospect of U.S. President Donald Trump examining a deal reached by Britain and Mauritius over the ...

If Britain wants to remain a reliable partner in our security alliance, it must be willing to defend its sovereignty. As much ...

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The British government was grilled in parliament on Wednesday as it denied claims by Mauritius that a new deal to return the ...

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 ...

1. Diego Garcia is the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago, located in the Indian Ocean. In 1966, Britain signed an agreement with the US which made the BIOT available for the two countries’ ...

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by which the UK would cede the archipelago to Mauritius while keeping control of the military base on the Diego Garcia island for at least 99 years, reportedly paying an annual lease of around £90 ...