UN experts urge UK to negotiate new Chagos deal that allows islanders to return - The deal returns sovereignty of the islands ...

Mauritius deal to turn over the archipelago shores up Western influence in the Indian Ocean as China tries to increase its ...

Britain separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 before it became independent in 1968. A leaked internal Foreign ...

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

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 ...

The United Kingdom has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... at the foundation of our safety and security at home.” “By agreeing to this deal now on our ...

“It made me feel enraged because I want to go home.” Dugasse was born on the Chagos Islands, which had been under the administration of Mauritius, a former British colony, until 1965, when ...

Most want to return home. Britain’s government has acknowledged ... the British government over the deal to transfer the Chagos Islands to Mauritian control. They only managed to halt the ...