The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been known as the British Indian Ocean Territory since being administratively ...

Britain evicted about 2,000 people from the Chagos Archipelago in the 1960s and 1970s so the US military could build the air base on Diego Garcia. Many resettled in the UK and have fought in ...

Note: This is part two of a three-part series on the proposed handover of the Chagos Archipelago from the UK to Mauritius. Part one — Why the Proposed UK-Mauritius Handover Would Be a Strategic Blow ...

The Diego Garcia base at the Chagos Archipelago. Representatives from the Republic of Mauritius and the United Kingdom held further productive discussions in London this week on the future of the ...

The expulsions were part of an international bargain, though not one that the 2,000 people of Chagos had any say in. The short version: For many years, the archipelago was a faraway administrative ...

In 2017 China abstained on a UN General Assembly vote which asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to deliver an ...

It's one island in the Chagos Archipelago. Thousands of Indigenous people who live there on the Chagos Islands were forced from their homeland 50 years ago to make way for that base.

Their acceptance of the "separation" of the Chagos Archipelago was secured only by high-level consultations with the UK Government at Lancaster House in London, attended by (on the Mauritian side ...

Note: This is part one of a three-part series on the proposed handover of the Chagos Archipelago from the UK to Mauritius. Part two — Why the Proposed UK-Mauritius Handover Is Not Required by ...