After 50 years of struggle, Chagossians won a major victory over the most powerful governments in the world. David Vine This ...

Chagossians, backed by allies in Mauritius and beyond, are continuing their struggle for the right to return to Diego Garcia, for the reconstruction of Chagossian society in Chagos, and for full ...

In 1965, the U.K. split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius, an island nation off the southeastern African coast, before forcibly expelling Chagossians from their homes to allow for the construction ...

‘Tug of war’: Chagos Islands deal tearing families apart in Mauritius. ... From then on, the two causes of Mauritian sovereignty over Chagos and the Chagossian struggle for justice were twinned.

Dugasse was born on the Chagos Islands, which had been under the administration of Mauritius, a former British colony, until 1965, when Britain split them away from Mauritius.

The Chagos deal, though, looks like a bad deal, and nothing Starmer can say can persuade people otherwise. This month, the prime minister has secured four international deals.

May 22 (UPI) --The British government signed-off Thursday on ceding the Chagos Islands back over to Mauritius after a last-minute court ruling delayed the transfer of international territory."The ...

The UK has signed a £3.4bn ($4.6bn) deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ... "Our country is elated that this 60-year struggle is finally over, ...

The deal will transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands from the U.K. to Mauritius — though Britain will retain control of the largest of the chain of islands, Diego Garcia, which hosts a ...

LONDON — Britain signed an agreement Thursday to hand sovereignty over the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a move the government says ensures the future of a U.S.-U.K. military base that ...

The Chagos Archipelago became a British territory in 1814. In 1965, the U.K. formally separated the islands from its then-colony Mauritius, before Mauritius gained independence three years later.