Britain found itself increasingly isolated as it fought hard to cling on to its claim to the islands. Read more at ...
When Captain Robert Moresby sailed through the Chagos Islands between 1834 and 1837, to conduct the first survey of the ...
Asylum seekers arriving on the British-owned archipelago will be shipped to St Helena, another UK territory more than 5,000 ...
The UK will return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but Diego Garcia will remain under UK-US control. Chagossians, displaced ...
Mauritius expects to receive billions of rupees from the UK following an agreement under which Britain ceded sovereignty of ...
By walking the decades-old talk on demanding sovereignty for Mauritius and holding firm throughout the negotiation process, ...
The joint UK-Mauritius announcement on October 3, with regards to the Chagos Archipelago reverting to Mauritian sovereignty, ...
The UK decision was welcomed by India and the US, and shows a capacity for fresh thinking. But the transfer of sovereignty ...
The western Indian Ocean’s Chagos Archipelago, with the exception of Diego Garcia, is no longer part of the British Indian ...
THE Chagos Islands are an archipelago that have made headlines after the UK agreed to hand sovereignty over the group to ...
The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been known as the British Indian Ocean Territory since being administratively ...
THE Chagos Islands are an archipelago that have made headlines after the UK agreed to hand sovereignty over the group to Mauritius. One of the islands, Diego Garcia, is especially important when ...