Credible votes in Botswana, Senegal, South Africa and Mauritius have shone this year. But political repression and violence keeps many discredited regimes in power.
The statement in the House of Lords by Foreign Office minister Baroness Chapman of Darlington on the transfer of the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, on Thursday 14 November. We use ...
The Chagos Islands lie roughly in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 1,600 km to the south of the southern tip of India.
The incoming Trump administration in the US could be preparing to lock horns with the Labour government over the Chagos ...
How will that go down at the UK's Ministry of Defence and in other parts of the world? Back in October, the government struck ...