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

director of the Chagos Conservation Trust, a charity working to protect the archipelago. “It is a haven for many other vulnerable and unique types of wildlife, including 800 different species of fish, ...

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

open image in gallery A group of Chagossians dedicating a memorial stone to mark their visit to Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos archipelago (PA) Ms Cuddy described an unusual place full of ...

The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is ...

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. France ceded ...

Washington, DC [US], October 3 (ANI): The United States has hailed the historic Chagos archipelago agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius today and hailed how diplomacy can overcome ...

On October 3 the Government announced that it had reached a deal to recognise that “Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago”. The archipelago is in the Indian Ocean and contains a ...