First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

Campaigners launch judicial review to stop Government from signing away islands without consulting Chagossians ...

After decades of political conflict, the United Kingdom will finally return the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius. However, the Chagossian people’s identity and resettlement remain unresolved. Since ...

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the ...

The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.

The bilateral deal, signed on May 22, transfers sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, to Mauritius, marking a formal step toward completing the country's decolonization.

Keir Starmer is facing humiliation on the international stage after experts at the United Nations (UN) called for his controversial deal with Mauritius on the Chagos Islands to be suspended. UN ...

The Chagos Islands, an archipelago of 58 islands in the Indian Ocean about halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia, were given to Britain by France in 1814 during the Napoleonic Wars.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faces calls to suspend his deal handing the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius after UN experts criticised its treatment of the Chagossian people. The deal, agreed last ...

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the rights of the Chagossian people. The deal, signed last month ...

The experts had previously raised concerns about continuous forced displacement of the Chagossian people and lack of their effective participation in decision-making processes concerning negotiations ...