United Nations experts call for Starmer’s Chagos deal to be suspended - The Chagos deal with Mauritius fails to guarantee ...

Agreement between Mauritius and the United Kingdom (UK) fails to guarantee rights of Chagossians say United Nations (UN) ...

The United Kingdom hands over the Chagos archipelago (and the massive US base on Diego Garcia island) to Mauritius (and to the Chinese fishing fleet). The final obstacle to the agreement was ...

Britain separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 before it became independent in 1968. A leaked internal Foreign ...

The UK is expected to sign a 99-year lease on the base, once sovereignty of the Chagos Islands is handed back to Mauritius. The Chagos Islands - officially known as the British Indian Ocean Territory ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

When the governments of Mauritius and the United Kingdom issued a joint declaration at the beginning of this month that they had “reached an historic political agreement on the exercise of ...

Once seen as a relic of colonialism, the Chagos Archipelago has evolved into a flashpoint in global strategic competition.

On Thursday, the British Government signed a treaty with Mauritius which, if ratified by Parliament, will grant Mauritius the sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, which have belonged to the United ...

He joined Newsweek in 2024 from the United Nations and has previously ... The base, called the Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia, is home to around 2,500 personnel. The base sits on Diego Garcia ...

LONDON — The United Kingdom has signed a deal to hand ... Under the deal, the U.K. can continue leasing the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia, keeping the key military facility in British ...

For nearly 50 years, Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean ... the land is owned by the United Kingdom but has been leased to the U.S. for a 99-year period.