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… ...

Chagos deal sparks uproar as the U.K. pays 30 billion pounds to Mauritius, loses critical territory and gives way to China's ...

However, the remainder of the archipelago's 57 islands comprising what had been known as the British Indian Ocean Territory will be thrown open for settlement under the new jurisdiction of Mauritius.

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Keir Starmer is facing major pressure to reveal the true cost of his deal to surrender the UK's last territory in the Indian Ocean, amid growing anger at the cost to the UK taxpayer. The Prime ...

Britain split the Chagos Islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean ...

Diego Garcia, the largest in the Chagos group in the central Indian Ocean, is about 1,300 miles northeast of Mauritian capital Port Louis.For half a century, it has been a staging area for major ...

Britain split the Chagos Islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean ...

In 1965, the UK controversially detached the Chagos Islands from Mauritius—then a British colony—just three years before granting Mauritius independence, creating the British Indian Ocean ...

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 ...

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 ...