This post tells the fascinating story of two recent and remarkable developments in the decolonization of the Chagos ...

Decades ago, the tropical archipelago just south of the equator off the tip of India, was given the IO country code and was ...

Analysis - Britain is close to resolving its territorial dispute with Mauritius over the Chagos Archipelago, located in the ...

In a joint statement with Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth, Keir Starmer said that Mauritius will take control of the islands, ...

A boat sent by the government of Mauritius has arrived in the disputed Chagos archipelago in ... evicting up to 2,000 people from their homes on the archipelago. Andrew Harding reports from ...

Spain has been emboldened to ramp up its claims over Gibraltar by the Government’s surrender of the Chagos Islands, a former ...

In the late 1960s, the inhabitants of the remote Chagos ... to arrive there in the 16th century. Under French rule, African slaves and Indian laborers were settled on the archipelago in the ...

The United Kingdom says it has reached a "historic" deal to cede the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to the Republic ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos ... of the archipelago, the islands have been uninhabited since 1973. As Mauritius takes back control, there are big ...

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

The Conservatives will demand answers on Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal in Parliament on Monday as they seek a ...