For nearly a month the French territory of Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean has been engulfed in flames. Located ...

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

There are signs of unease within the Government about the plan to hand over the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The current deal involves Britain paying Mauritius £90 million a year for 99 years to maintain control of the US military ...

Phillipe Sands, who compared Britain’s possession of territory to Russian invasion of Crimea, attended ceremony in 2022 ...

Sir Keir Starmer has defended the controversial Chagos Islands deal after the Conservative leader branded it an "immoral ...

Air base could become hotbed for Beijing’s spyware and missile technology, fears former Diego Garcia commander ...

Keir Starmer has insisted that a deal on the 'legal certainty' of the Chagos Islands is 'vital to national security'.

Open the Youtube video As we all know by now the Government has been desperately trying to reach a deal with Mauritius to ...

The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – but the UK government has ...

And media reports from the Indian Ocean suggest a 'special ... going to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, which has been a British overseas territory for more than 200 years.

The UK took control of the Chagos Islands, or British Indian Ocean Territory, from its then colony, Mauritius, in 1965 and went on to evict its population of more than 1,000 people to make way for ...