Chagossians were forced to leave the central Indian Ocean territory ... Chagossians have spent decades fighting to return to the islands. The United Nations’ highest court, the International ...

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The UK has given up a top secret island to Mauritius after years of arguments and negotiations. The Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean has been strictly out of bounds since 1973 when the UK and US ...

Bernadette Dugasse and Bertrice Pompe, both British citizens, fear it will become even harder to go back to live where they were born once Mauritius takes control of the islands. “Chagossians ...

Chagossians’ are people who were born on BIOT (the Chagos Islands) and their descendants. Between 1968 and 1973 the UK government removed people from BIOT and relocated them to Mauritius and ...

but this would leave the legal status of the joint base in doubt and thus at risk. In a worst-case scenario, Mauritius could transfer sovereignty of “their” islands to, say, China or India.

Bernadette Dugasse and Bertrice Pompe, who are both British citizens, say that UK ministers have unlawfully excluded Chagossians from discussions about their homeland's future. The Chagos Islands' ...