A single island in the Indian Ocean is causing a nightmare for government officials on both sides of the Atlantic. President ...

We do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country.” So wrote Lord Balfour as Foreign Secretary in 1919, referring to the views of the ...

The UK plans to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while leasing a military base there - Trump says the ...

The move comes months after India agreed to support Mauritius's surveillance of its expanded territorial waters around Chagos, deepening New Delhi's strategic involvement in the disputed maritime area ...