The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...

The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

To the people’s dismay, the agreement continues to bar them from living on Diego Garcia. Right wing critics in the UK and the United States pounced on the Chagos deal to bash the new Labour ...

PORT LOUIS (Reuters) -Mauritius welcomes the prospect of U.S. President Donald Trump examining a deal reached by Britain and ...

Sir Keir Starmer appears to have had a change of heart when it comes to working with the Trump administration – and that’s a good thing.

An image provided by one of the migrants shows people on the deck of a boat before landing on Diego Garcia The United Nations refugee agency has said a remote British territory in the Indian Ocean ...

while the UK and US would retain control over the military base on Diego Garcia under a 99-year lease. There was agreement in principle to a right of return for the Chagossian people. In spite of ...

Diego Garcia's proximity to vital international ... The native Chagossian people are a mixture between the West Africans and Indians who were brought to the islands as laborers.