On 28 January 2021, the United Nation's International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ruled, in a dispute between Mauritius and Maldives on their maritime boundary, that the United Kingdom has no sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, and that Mauritius is sovereign there. The United Kingdom disputes this and does not recognise the tribunal's ...

Jan 28, 2021 · The maritime law tribunal of the United Nations has ruled that Britain has no sovereignty over the Chagos Islands. It criticised London for its failure to hand the territory back to Mauritius.

Oct 6, 2020 · Mauritius’s series of legal and diplomatic victories and unrelenting drive to win uncontested sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago suggest that the clock may be running out for the U.K., and by extension the U.S., in Diego Garcia.

Oct 4, 2024 · After a dispute running for more than 50 years, the United Kingdom will finally hand back the Chagos Islands, an archipelago located in the Indian Ocean, to the southeast African island...

Oct 4, 2024 · The UK transfers sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, securing the UK-US military base on Diego Garcia. Learn about the history, geopolitical significance, and legal disputes surrounding the Chagos Archipelago.

Mar 28, 2019 · On 25 February 2019, the International Court of Justice (hereinafter ICJ or Court) delivered its advisory opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 (hereinafter Chagos Archipelagos Opinion or Opinion).

1 day ago · The UK has asked for "strong protections" for a joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. Britain agreed last year to hand over the archipelago over to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute.

Oct 21, 2024 · In 2010, Mauritius launched a case over the UK’s establishment of a marine protected area around the Chagos Archipelago. In that case, the Annex VII UNCLOS Arbitral Tribunal found that it lacked jurisdiction to determine whether the UK was a “coastal state” of the Chagos Archipelago.

The Chagos Archipelago (/ ˈ tʃ ɑː ɡ ə s,-ɡ oʊ s /) or Chagos Islands (formerly the Bassas de Chagas, [2] and later the Oil Islands) is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean about 500 kilometres (310 mi) south of the Maldives archipelago. This chain of islands is the southernmost archipelago of the Chagos–Laccadive Ridge, a …

Oct 19, 2020 · Between 1968 and 1974, the UK forcibly removed thousands of Chagossians from their homelands and sent them more than 1,600km (1,000 miles) away to Mauritius and the Seychelles, where they faced...