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

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

With British PM Keir Starmer seeking ‘strong protections’ for the US-British base on Diego Garcia, the Chagos Archipelago is ...

The UK Government wants to give the Chagos Islands, also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory, to Mauritius and pay to lease back the US-UK military base on Diego Garcia. Sir Keir Starmer ...

Sir Keir Starmer has warned national security could be put at risk without a deal to give “legal certainty” over the status of the Chagos Islands and the strategically important Diego Garcia military ...

Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands? - The African island ...

With reports the UK and Mauritius have agreed new terms on the Indian Ocean archipelago, a White House spokesperson told The Independent the US president has not given it his blessing ...

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 ...

have spoken directly for the first time about the recently concluded Chagos Islands deal, by which the UK would cede the archipelago to Mauritius while keeping control of the military base on the ...

are among those worried ceding control of the islands could weaken Western influence in the Indian Ocean and strengthen the reach of China. Britain set up the Diego Garcia base after independence ...

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