Chagos is an archipelago of 50 plus islands and nearly 1,000 islets, Diego Garcia being the largest of them all. ... The Chagos Islands became a British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965, ...

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 i… ...

The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a British overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia. Mauritius wants control over ...

The Indian Ocean archipelago is home to the Diego Garcia US military base. Britain disputes that the islands, which it calls the British Indian Ocean Territory, were ever a colony.

Indeed, that the separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius was unlawful is precisely the basis for the Mauritian legal claim over the islands – a position upheld in an advisory opinion ...

Dame Priti Patel asked whether ministers ‘are afraid’ of Labour backbenchers, who might ‘force them into another embarrassing ...

HMG would like to establish a "marine park" or "reserve" providing comprehensive environmental protection to the reefs and waters of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), a senior Foreign and ...

The Chagos Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Africa and Indonesia. Pictures From History/Universal ...

Various contributors to The Interpreter’s Chagos Question debate assert that Britain’s controversial claim to the Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory – BIOT) violates the rules-based ...

The Chagos Islands are a collection of 60 islands that lie 500km south of the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean. They were claimed by Mauritius , after the country gained independence in 1968. Read ...

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The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a UK Overseas Territory situated halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia and comprising the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago, itself comprising ...