Diego Garcia remains a cornerstone of Western military strategy in an increasingly multipolar world. As the geopolitical ...

The UK had controlled the region since 1814 and had detached the Chagos Islands in 1965 from Mauritius to create the British ...

A treaty finalized by the UK may bring about the end of the .io domain. Last week, the British government announced that it ...

But Mauritius’ leaders have become close with China’s rulers, and the latter “will be delighted” with this transfer of ...

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...

Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is strictly out of bounds to most civilians, despite being home to beaches ...

The Government does not have the Get Out of Jail Free card it imagines when it comes to the matter of the Chagos Islands.

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...

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 ...

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

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.