If you’re looking for a story that sums up why Britain is in such a godawful mess, try this. At an Oxford college dinner in ...

The consultancy says Mauritius offers investors a “stable bridge between Africa and Asia”. Britain is criticised for ...

The tiny Indian Ocean nation is tied with Monaco at the head of Nomad Capitalist's  Freedom Index 2025 after announcing plans ...

The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy has been calling for Jonathan Powell to appear before it since his appointment in November.

A single London council has seen its housing bill for new migrants soar to £18 million after hundreds of Chagos Islanders ...

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

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

How the People of the Chagos Islands Won Back the Right to Return to Their Homelands After 50 years of struggle, Chagossians won a major victory over the most powerful governments in the world.

Chagos deal secures strategic UK-US base while leaving islanders unmoored A U.K.-Mauritius deal to turn over the archipelago shores up Western influence in the Indian Ocean as China tries to increase ...

For years, Chagossians have demanded the right to return to their island homes. The Chagos archipelago includes roughly 60 islands in the central Indian Ocean. Image by Andrés Alegría/Mongabay.

The British government has signed a deal to transfer the Chagos Islands’ sovereignty to Mauritius. But it effectively blocks the return of hundreds of islanders who were born there. They were ...