CRAWLEY, England - Chagossians living in Britain said fresh doubts over a deal to hand sovereignty of their islands to Mauritius had given them a "last chance" to demand a rethink, and pledged to ...

The UK Government’s agreement on the future of the Chagos Islands has run into trouble following elections in Mauritius and ...

THE government has washed itself of British Chagossians’ right to return in its latest deal to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, MPs heard today. Foreign Office minister Stephen ...

It had been part of Mauritius which itself was a British colony. From the 1960s to the early 1970s around 1,500 Chagossians were forcefully evicted from their islands. By 1973 the forced removal ...

Chagossians were forced to leave their homeland in the 1960s and 1970s, after Britain bought the chain of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean and established a military base, which it leased ...

There are about 10,000 Chagossians scattered over the world, many of them in Crawley in Sussex. In my experience, they mainly want to be sure that their relatives also have the right to immigrate ...

The displaced Chagossians have fought for years in British courts for the right to return to their homeland. Under the terms of the new agreement, they and their descendants would be allowed to ...

Consequently, about 2,000 Chagossians were expelled between 1968 and 1973, in what Human Rights Watch has called a “crime against humanity.” Mauritius brought a case to the International Court ...

He urged ministers to instead hold a referendum among Chagossians about the future of the strategically-important islands. Fresh doubts have been cast over Labour's controversial deal with ...

Last week in the UK's House of Commons, Shadow Foreign Secretary Dame Priti Patel accused the Labour government of putting the UK's national security at risk, ignoring the interests of Chagossians, ...

The displaced Chagossians fought unsuccessfully in U.K. courts for years for the right to go home. Under the deal, they and their descendants could be allowed to return to the islands, apart from ...