UK should renegotiate Chagos Islands deal to allow islanders to return, UN argues - Chagossians were expelled from the ...

The deal returns sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius, but will see the UK lease back a military base on Diego Garcia, the ...

The deal returns sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius, but will see the UK lease back a military base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands.

LONDON (AP) — Bernadette Dugasse was just a toddler when her family was forced to leave her birthplace. She didn’t get a chance to return until she was a grandmother. Dugasse, 68, has spent ...

It turned out that Britain was evicting the entire population of the Chago Islands — about 1,500 people descended from African slaves and plantation workers –- so the U.S. military could build ...

Britain’s government has acknowledged that its removal of islanders was wrong, and has granted many citizenship and set aside some funds to improve their lives. But it continues to bar Chagossians ...

Dugasse, 68, has spent most of her life in the Seychelles and the U.K., wondering what it would be like to set foot on the tropical island of Diego Garcia, part of the remote cluster of atolls in ...