Foreign Secretary David Lammy is expected to make a statement in the Commons over the controversial move to hand control of ...

After years of negotiations, the UK is giving up its sovereignty over a cluster of strategically important Indian Ocean ...

The government of Mauritius has long argued that it was illegally forced to give the Chagos Islands away in return for its ...

Shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell also criticised the move as ‘not a deal’ which previous Conservative foreign ...

Labour faced heavy criticism from figures on the right over the decision, which will see Mauritius take control of the former ...

After decades of legal battles, Britain has agreed to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former colony. The remote ...

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

In 1965, as part of the decolonisation process, the UK separated the islands from Mauritius, creating a new colony. From 1968 ...

On the Chagos Islands, a group of Sri Lankan migrants have been stranded for years and await news of their fate as Britain hands over the archipelago to ...

Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth says a UK decision to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands completes a push to ...

The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that agreement has been reached to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending ...

After decades of legal battles, Britain has agreed to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former colony. The remote ...