The United Nations International Court of Justice ruled in 2019 that the U.K. illicitly separated the Chagos Islands from the small island nation during the independence process.

The UK will return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but Diego Garcia will remain under UK-US control. Chagossians, displaced decades ago, feel excluded from the deal. Go to navigation ...

The Chagos Archipelago became a British territory in 1814. In 1965, the U.K. formally separated the islands from its then-colony Mauritius, before Mauritius gained independence three years later.

In the 1960s, Britain granted Mauritius independence but carved out the Chagos Islands and evicted more than 1,000 inhabitants whose ancestors were taken there by the French as slaves from Africa ...