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

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

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

Government remains confident that a speedy resolution will be reached in the coming weeks between Mauritius and the United Kingdom (UK) on the Chagos Archipelago. The Prime Minister, Dr ...

The UK has asked for "strong protections" for a joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. Britain agreed last year to hand over the archipelago over to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute.

Under the terms of its deal, Britain will give away the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean and pay billions over a century to lease back Diego Garcia, the island that hosts the strategically ...

The UK government said it wouldn’t provide any details on a proposed multibillion-pound deal to continue operating a military base in the Chagos archipelago once it cedes control of the islands ...

The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is ...

There is hope that the historic agreement securing the country’s sovereignty over the Chagos archipelago will be signed on March 12 – Mauritius Independence Day. A top official close to the ...

In any case, Mauritius’s claim rests on the ludicrous idea that, since the Chagos archipelago was administered by the British from Mauritius, it should be Mauritian today – a risible argument that ...

He said: “The British Prime Minister informed me that he intends to push ahead with the agreement reached between Mauritius and the United Kingdom on the Chagos archipelago. “We remain ...