The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...

Strategically located between East Africa and Southeast Asia, Diego Garcia serves as a surveillance centre for the Middle ...

Mauritius is an ally of China, and Beijing is licking its chops at the prospect of conducting electronic snooping of the base ...

Mauritius' Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth announced that the return of the Chagos Islands marks the completion of the nation ...

The sun will finally set on the British Empire, reportedly heavily due to President Joe Biden's pressure on Prime Minister ...

The British government unsurprisingly wants to draw a line under that sorry history. On October 3rd it announced plans to ...

Mauritius is a stable and prosperous Indian Ocean archipelago. Once dependent on sugar exports, the island has built up a ...

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. Also, the US Marine Corps takes no ...

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

Last Thursday, Vanessa Calou got a phone call from a number in Mauritius. “They said, ‘I think Mauritius got Chagos’, and I ...

The U.N. General Assembly followed that opinion with a resolution demanding that Britain end its "colonial administration" of ...