The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending decades of British administration. The ...

Archipelago was annexed by Britain before Mauritius gained independence in the 1960s. 3 Sep 2018 - 12:03PM Britain’s humiliating defeat at UN for claim to Indian Ocean ‘territory’ ...

The Chagos Islands, an archipelago of 58 islands in the Indian ... Though small in land area, the island state claims a maritime zone spanning 2.3 million square km, roughly the same as the ...

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.

The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is ...

Representatives from the Republic of Mauritius and the United Kingdom held further productive discussions in London this week on the future of the Chagos Archipelago. In a joint statement ...

In the late 1960s, the inhabitants of the remote Chagos Islands were forcibly moved to make way for a military base. Now London wants to hand over the archipelago to Mauritius. Those displaced at ...