The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a UK Overseas Territory situated halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia and comprising the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago, itself comprising ...

Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the British Isles, is desperate to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, yet another ...

The Chagos Archipelago was separated from Mauritius in 1965, when Mauritius was still a British colony. Britain purchased the ...

It means formal sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT ... but the position will be that the BIOT – comprising the Chagos Islands and the military base – will be transferred ...

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.

A chunk of British Indian Ocean Territory is the remote Chagos archipelago, embroiled in a long-running dispute between the U.K. government and Mauritius. The largest Chagos island hosts the joint ...

Small, uninhabited but strategically important islands are a point of contention between France and Madagascar ...

In this long arc of strategic base-building, Diego Garcia stands as a contemporary embodiment of Mahan's strategy, providing the United States with unparalleled reach into the Indian Ocean ... of the ...

Dame Priti continued: “The British Indian Ocean Territory should remain British ... was asked if he was confident that the rights of Chagos Islanders have been properly observed.

The plan to hand over control of the Chagos Islands, officially known as the British Indian Ocean Territory, was announced last October following negotiations with then-Mauritian leader Pravind ...