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

In the late 1960s, locals were expelled from Diego Garcia by the UK government so a joint UK-US military base could be established there. Islanders fear the Commonwealth could do the same at Cocos ...

However, the Diego Garcia island, home to a UK-US military base, remains off-limits. This marks a significant moment in restoring justice to those displaced during Britain’s colonial rule.

Britain is thought to be ready to hand Mauritius about £90million a year to keep control of the strategically important UK-US military base on Diego Garcia. But the prospect has sparked fury ...

The latest development comes after the UK announced last month that it was handing sovereignty of British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot), which includes Diego Garcia, to Mauritius. The military base, ...

Under the deal, the U.K.-U.S. naval and bomber base on the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia, would remain under U.K. control for at least 99 years. When it made the announcement, Britain’s ...

The UK announced in October it would cede sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean, but maintain control of the base on the largest island Diego Garcia under a 99-year lease. There had ...

Britain struck a deal in October to hand over control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius while retaining control of the military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago ...

Home Secretary will try to ease US counterpart’s fears that China could spy on the Diego Garcia air base David Lammy will meet Donald Trump’s secretary of state in a last-ditch effort to ...

Most of the group of around 60 migrants have been living in a makeshift camp on Diego Garcia - the site of a strategic UK-US military base - since October 2021, when they became the first people ever ...