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

Taxpayer money spent on bespoke programme despite country’s demands for Britain to give up the Indian Ocean territory ...

An anthropologist recounts how a small island nation built and deployed its first satellite—and what their effort says about ...

Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, has been recognised as the safest country in Africa, making it an ideal ...

The archipelago is home to a joint US-UK military base, a strategically important military asset in the Indian Ocean.

In 2019, as vice-president of the ICJ, Xue Hanqin ruled that the UK should give islands to Mauritius ‘as rapidly as possible’ ...

UK taxpayers spent £1.3 million out of the foreign aid budget on a diversity scheme in Mauritius amid negotiations over the ...

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

Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty said doubts about the legal status of the Chagos Islands meant there would be 'no ...

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

Just three months into power, Labour pulled off what it billed as a diplomatic coup: ending a long-running dispute over the status of the Chagos Islands, one of Britain’s final imperial possessions, ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the ...