The real challenge facing the Mauritian government is how to turn a diplomatic triumph into sustainable economic development.

The Chagos archipelago includes roughly 60 islands in the central ... roughly 18 species of seabirds and nearly 300 species of reef-building corals, considered some of the healthiest reefs in the ...

Around 2,000 Chagos residents were forcibly removed to make way for the building of the military base on Diego Garcia. In 2019, the International Court of Justice in The Hague issued its ...

The United Kingdom has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, following a High Court ruling that has cleared the way for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to formalise the ...

Chagossian Bernadette Dugasse looks at a Chagos Islands map during an interview with The Associated Press, at her home in London, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) 31,039 people ...

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 ...

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.

we pass buildings like armouries, and see military aircraft. But there is much that is off limits. Further to our previous post from Jack Fenwick, here is a breakdown of the costs of the Chagos ...

Members of the Chagossian community gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice during the legal action against the UK handover of the Chagos Islands ... launch China is building a constellation ...

and fisheries" and "building on a long-standing partnership with a shared focus on sustainable development." The UK Government has insisted that the Chagos deal will include security guarantees to ...

Britain treated the islands as a security asset, expelling the islands’ inhabitants, and negotiating with the United States the building of a military base on Diego Garcia, which is the largest of the ...

In this long arc of strategic base-building, Diego Garcia stands as a ... the separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritian territory and the continued administration of the islands by ...