The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...

The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

As part of the £90 million a year expected to be paid to Mauritius to keep control of the base, Sir Keir has promised a ...

The current deal involves Britain paying Mauritius £90 million a year for 99 years to maintain control of the US military ...

The neighbourhood waters could become choppy for India, given the inherent and inherited complexities and also the evolving ...

It is unclear what the US stance on the deal is exactly, but last year, before he was in office, Secretary of State Marco ...

Lucie Tiatos, 78, tells me in Chagossian creole (translated through a young man Maxwell who speaks both), that "if god keeps ...

President Trump's intervention could see further delays after the UK and Mauritius reached a deal on the territory, pending ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called ”Footprint of Freedom,” is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos Island chain in the Indian Ocean. It is one of the most important and ...

The US has made a last-ditch intervention on the future of the Chagos Islands, demanding a seat at the negotiating table ...

Mauritius awaits Trump’s approval for UK to hand over archipelago, with Chagossians at odds over what’s in it for them.