PRIME Minister Sir Keir Starmer faces calls to suspend his deal handing the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius after UN experts criticised its treatment of the Chagossian people.

Sir Keir Starmer defends the UK's £3.4bn Chagos islands deal after Kemi Badenoch says it is bad value for money.

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

A panel of UN experts urged Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to abandon the agreement reached with Mauritius last month and negotiate a new one.

The Prime Minister last month signed an agreement to cede sovereignty of the stretegically-important Indian Ocean archipelago ...

The deal returns sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius, but will see the UK lease back a military base on Diego Garcia, the ...

The real challenge facing the Mauritian government is how to turn a diplomatic triumph into sustainable economic development.

Mauritius deal to turn over the archipelago shores up Western influence in the Indian Ocean as China tries to increase its ...

“I don’t think I will ever be able to settle on my birthplace.” Mauritius can implement a resettlement program on all the islands except Diego Garcia, which, as a military base, will remain under U.K.

Under the terms of the deal the UK must notify Mauritius if it plans to use Diego Garcia to launch an “armed attack on any third state” and give Mauritian companies priority when awarding ...

As part of the agreement, the UK will pay Mauritius approximately £101 million (USD 136 million) annually to lease back the critical military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island in the ...

Britain’s government has acknowledged that its removal of islanders was wrong, and has granted many citizenship and set aside some funds to improve their lives. But it continues to bar Chagossians ...