First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

Mauritius is ‘likely’ to resume its campaign to secure a judgment on sovereignty against Britain unless the agreement is ...

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal returning the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the rights of the Chagossian people.

The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.

There’s no doubt that the bloody chessboard of the Middle East has, yet again, been thrown in the air. As more US attacks ...

In 2017 China abstained on a UN General Assembly vote which asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to deliver an ...

Coverage of the Foreign Affairs select committee session on the Chagos Islands agreement, with evidence from foreign office ...

The UK’s deal returning the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has been criticised by a panel of UN experts (Lucy North/PA) By Christopher McKeon, PA Political Correspondent June 10, 2025 at 11:25pm BST ...

Scrap Chagos Islands deal and agree new one, UN panel urges UK PA Media Two Chagossian women tried to block the UK-Mauritius deal at the UK High Court James Chater ...

Keir Starmer is facing humiliation on the international stage after experts at the United Nations (UN) called for his controversial deal with Mauritius on the Chagos Islands to be suspended. UN ...

The Chagos Islands, an archipelago of 58 islands in the Indian Ocean about halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia, were given to Britain by France in 1814 during the Napoleonic Wars.