The real challenge facing the Mauritian government is how to turn a diplomatic triumph into sustainable economic development.

The Government’s announcement of the Chagos Islands deal was temporarily delayed after a legal challenge was launched by ...

Conservative peers have launched a last-ditch attempt to stop Sir Keir Starmer from giving the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has signed an agreement handing over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ...

The British government has handed control of the strategically significant Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after the ...

The governments of Britain and Mauritius have signed a deal settling the future of the Chagos Islands after overcoming ...

A ceremony transferring sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius was called off ...

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"Keir Starmer has secured his legacy," said The Daily Telegraph: his "shameful surrender of the Chagos Islands will go down ...

Story so far: Mauritius won a strategic victory on May 22, 2025, when the United Kingdom (U.K.) officially handed over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands after finalising the political treaty ...

The governments of Britain and Mauritius have reached a final deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands but have been barred from signing it by a British judge ...

The Chagos Islands are in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia.