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

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

The Tory leader says Labour's negotiations could cost the UK billions; the prime minister questions whether Badenoch has been ...

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

A British minister denied on Wednesday media reports that the government could end up paying billions of pounds more to ...

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

The UK government has denied claims made by the prime minister of Mauritius that it faces paying billions more under a ...

The visit comes in the midst of the Chagos Islands row where self-determination ... and understand the critical issues facing the British people there. “After going through the invasion and ...

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, ...

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

The UK has denied the cost of handing over the Chagos Islands could rise to £18 billion and disputed claims made by the Mauritian Prime Minister about the renegotiated deal. Mauritian Prime ...

Some 2,000 people were expelled from the Chagos Islands in the 1960s and 1970s to make way for the base. Today, they and their descendants number around 10,000, spread between Mauritius ...