After 50 years of struggle, Chagossians won a major victory over the most powerful governments in the world. David Vine This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important ...

The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.

Chagos Islands: UN officially demands Britain and US withdraw from Indian Ocean archipelago. ... Mr Jugnauth said the 1965 agreement on the Chagos Archipelago “was carried out under duress.” ...

U.K. hands Chagos to Mauritius but U.S. still can use Diego Garcia base The Chagos Islands are in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia.

In the 1960s, in the middle of the Cold War the US secreted away a slither of land in the Indian Ocean. Today, Diego Garcia is one of its most important and secretive military bases – but a new ...

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the rights of the Chagossian people.

The UK established the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) in 1965, which incorporated the Chagos Archipelago. These islands were detached from Mauritius after independence in 1968, with the UK ...

Half a century ago, the British government forcibly removed 2,000 people from a remote string of islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean. They’ve never stopped struggling to return.

Located deep in the heart of the Indian Ocean, the Chagos Islands lie between Africa and Indonesia, about 500 km due south of The Maldives, ...

But the Chagos islands’ location in the Indian Ocean is also appetizing to China, which imports much of its oil from the Middle East using routes that cut through those waters, ...

The future of the .io domain remains up in the air after the UK finalized a treaty that puts the Chagos Islands — once the British Indian Ocean Territory — under control of Mauritius.