The UK and Mauritius on May 22, 2025, announced they had agreed a treaty concerning the Chagos Archipelago. Over 50 years ago, the UK and US forcibly displaced the entire Chagossian Indigenous people, ...

The British government has signed a deal to transfer the Chagos Islands’ sovereignty to Mauritius. But it effectively blocks the return of hundreds of islanders who were born there. They were ...

LONDON — Britain signed an agreement Thursday handing sovereignty over the contested and strategically located Chagos Islands ...

The Chagos Islands are in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia.

The governments of Britain and Mauritius have signed a deal settling the future of the Chagos Islands after overcoming ...

Britain signed a multi-billion dollar deal on the future of the Chagos Islands with Mauritius after a last-gasp injunction ...

The governments of Britain and Mauritius have reached a final deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands but have been ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base.

That legacy endures not only in geopolitics, but also in the very language people use ... the United Kingdom’s decision to return the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius has further emboldened ...

Britain evicted hundreds of people from the remote islands in ... three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Now, just as the U.K. prepares to enter into a historic treaty to hand over control of the Chagos Islands archipelago ... between rival European powers, people began settling on Diego Garcia ...