The Chagos Archipelago constitutes one of the world’s most important and unspoilt natural environments. Far away from centres ...

In May 2025 the British government agreed to give sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back a key ...

Exclusive: Louis Misley Mandarin, the interim first minister of the Chagossian government in exile, spoke to The Independent ...

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

Retired military chiefs have issued a rallying cry to peers ahead of Monday's crunch Chagos Islands "surrender" vote. The ...

The islanders' First Minister Misley Mandarin warns that the 'very bad deal' would 'put at risk' the strategically important ...

Peers have backed an amendment, which was led by former military chiefs, which has left Starmer’s controversial Chagos deal ...

Sir Keir Starmer has suffered a huge blow over the government’s controversial move to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

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

This week, the government will try to push its draft deal to surrender the Chagos Islands through Parliament. There are ...

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