The British government has signed a deal to transfer the Chagos Islands’ sovereignty to Mauritius. But it effectively blocks ...

On Monday, the UN’s highest court said the UK should end it’s control of the Chagos Islands “as rapidly as possible”. The International Court of Justice ruled the islands were taken ...

The Chagos Archipelago is clearly depicted as a Mauritian territory in the new world map (Map No 4170 Revision 18.1 of 20 February 2020), recently issued by the United Nations (UN) Secretariat.

The government has put the much-contested Chagos islands deal ‘on hold’ after outcry from Labour backbenchers. The deal would see sovereignty over the Chagos islands returned to Mauritius ...

People demonstrate outside the High Court in London, Thursday, May 22, 2025, after a British court blocked the U.K. from transferring sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius hours before ...

A 2023 Human Rights Watch report, “That’s When the Nightmare Started,” details the UK and US deportation of the entire population of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean so the US could ...

The UK government’s deal to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius can now go ahead after the High Court lifted a temporary block on the agreement. The news will come as a relief to Keir Starmer ...

Slam poet Geraldine Baptiste pulls no punches when telling the story of her “Granpapa”, one of the 1,500-plus people ripped from a peaceful existence on the Chagos Islands by the British to ...

The UK has handed sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after decades of negotiations. The Indian Ocean archipelago had been a British island territory for over half a century ...

Andrew Harding reports from the Chagos Islands on a long-awaited homecoming, as former islanders sent by the government of Mauritius arrive back. Show more In 1965, Britain took control of the ...

Bernadette Dugasse was just a toddler when her family was forced to leave her birthplace, the Chagos Islands. After years of fighting for the right to go home, Dugasse and other displaced islanders ...

After years of fighting for the right to go home, Dugasse and other displaced islanders watched in despair Thursday as the U.K. government announced it was formally transferring the Chagos Islands ...