More: In Diego Garcia's water, "pre-positioned" freighters and tankers wait at anchor, packed with tanks, ammo, fuel, food, water, the arms and material it takes for armies, navies and air forces ...

This American air-base in the Indian Ocean has been part of US-UK talks as London plans to hand the island over to Mauritius.

Two women born on the Chagos Islands are seeking to take the British government to court over a proposed deal to transfer sovereignty of the disputed Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius ...

Two Chagos Islands-born women are taking legal action against the UK government over a proposed sovereignty transfer to ...

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Mauritius on Tuesday for talks on upgrading strategic ties, days after ...

China has built up economic and military ties across the Indian Ocean. The region holds 40% of the world’s offshore oil and ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called ”Footprint of Freedom,” is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos Island chain in the Indian Ocean. It is one of the ...

Mauritius, under a new government, is negotiating with the UK to regain sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, crucial for ...