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Mauritius

  • Aerial view of Chagos Islands atoll with turquoise lagoon and islands scattered in blue ocean

    No signs Chagos deal can be adapted to suit Trump, say UK officials

    Agreement with Mauritius over Diego Garcia unlikely to be revived unless president changes his mind, insiders believe
  • Nigel Farage

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: PM’s new anti-disinformation unit gets cross-party backing, as Farage declares it an attack on free speech – as it happened

    Farage referred to the new unit and said Burnham was setting it up ‘using the excuse that Russia wants to interfere with elections’
  • Aerial view of Diego Garcia atoll's turquoise lagoon and green land amid dark ocean

    Chagos Islands deal ‘can’t go ahead’ without US support, Streeting says

    Defence secretary places annual payments to Mauritius on hold as UK government reviews deal over Diego Garcia base

August 2026

  • JJ Feild and Rupert Penry-Jones ride on horseback through a sugar plantation with workers in the background

    Prisoners of Paradise review – Ellie Bamber heads to Mauritius for chaste literary tale of star-crossed lovers

    An upper-class Englishwoman falls in love with a worker on her uncle’s sugar plantation in this insipid adaptation of Romesh Gunesekera’s novel

June 2026

  • Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu stand at microphones, one looking down, the other looking ahead, with an American flag visible behind them

    Trump administration briefing
    Trump news at a glance: Israel strikes back at Iran despite president’s appeal

    Donald Trump said: ‘I’m about to call Bibi right now and tell him not to respond’, as conflict risks spiralling – key US politics stories from 7 June at a glance
  • aerial view of island

    Trump reportedly considers buying Chagos Islands from Mauritius

    Potential proposal would secure control of Diego Garcia base amid stalled UK plans to cede sovereignty of territory
  • A group of people in business attire wearing orange lanyards pose with Jeremy Corbyn in an office meeting room

    Chagossians urge UK to complete islands’ handover to Mauritius

    Delegation of Chagos refugees visiting Britain says issue has been ‘hijacked within the halls’ of politics

April 2026

  • Stanlow refinery. While there is no suggestion that Essar acted illegally, the restructuring ‘raises red flags in relation to possible [sanctions] circumvention’, according to one expert.

    Revealed: UK oil refinery owner moved Russian loans to offshore subsidiary where sanctions did not apply

    MPs call for investigation into Essar Energy, owner of Stanlow refinery, which shifted loans from ‘Putin’s piggy bank’ VTB to Mauritius
  • President Lai Ching-te with two mics and red curtain behind

    Taiwan president blames China for forced cancellation of Eswatini trip

    Lai Ching-te abandons visit after Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar revoke overflight permission

    • Chagos Islands treaty is now ‘impossible to agree at political level’, UK minister says

    • Mauritius vows to ‘decolonise’ Chagos Islands after Starmer shelves handover

    • UK forced to shelve Chagos Islands legislation after US dropped support

March 2026

  • Donald Trump wearing a USA baseball hat

    UK ‘took far too long’ to let US use its airbases to attack Iran, Trump says

    US president also ‘very disappointed’ in Keir Starmer over UK government’s deal to hand Chagos Islands to Mauritius

February 2026

  • Nigel Farage speaking in front of a picture of the Palace of Westminster

    Nigel Farage accused of ‘Maga stunts’ for saying he was denied access to Chagos Islands

    Reform UK leader flew to the Maldives for a day despite not having permit to visit nearby archipelago
  • Misley Mandarin, the leader of the group, at a protest in London last year.

    Four Chagossians return to islands in attempt to stop British transfer to Mauritius

    Group says they intend to establish permanent settlement but Mauritius’s attorney general calls their move a ‘publicity stunt’

    • Trump waters down criticism of UK’s Chagos Islands deal after call with Starmer

    • Why the Chagos Islands’ ecology will not be wrecked by return to Mauritius

    • Plan to allow fishing around Chagos Islands alarms conservationists

January 2026

  • An aerial view of Diego Garcia Islands in the Indian ocean.

    Chagos Islands’ pristine ecology must be protected

  • An aerial view of Diego Garcia

    UK to hand Chagos Islands to Mauritius despite Trump’s taunts, No 10 says

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