When Captain Robert Moresby sailed through the Chagos Islands between 1834 and 1837, to conduct the first survey of the ...

Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...

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

The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – after a long dispute ...

A legal dispute is playing out after asylum seekers arrived on the secretive island in the Indian Ocean, with UK authorities ...

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

For years, Mauritius demanded the UK end its control on the Chagos Archipelago. Why was their ownership a matter of ...

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

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

The government of Mauritius has long argued that it was illegally forced to give the Chagos Islands away in return for its ...

An agreement between the UK and Mauritian governments could see thousands of exiled Chagossians resettled again.

Since 1971, only Diego Garcia has been allowed inhabitants - US military employees - after the UK expelled the Chagossians at ...