The Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean comprise seven atolls, with the northernmost atoll called Peros Banhos ... United Kingdom sovereignty. When Great Britain began to decolonise its Indian ...

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

Sir Humphrey Appleby’s astute observation about the state of politicians in Yes Minister continues to hold true as Britain has agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands, a necklace of tropical islands in ...

Chagos is nearly three times the area of the British Isles. In 2010, it became the world's largest marine protected area that bans any form of fishing. The shallow water coral reefs account for 1. ...

As news broke out that the United Kingdom had made arrangements to hand over its last colony in Africa, very little was said about the people it drove out of the Chagos Islands during its ...

ominous realities was on pathetic display a few days ago when Britain announced that it was turning over the Chagos Islands, where we have a crucial military base, to Mauritius, which is off the ...

The Chagos Islands are the site of one of the shabbier ... 1960s and 1970s to make way for an American military base on the atoll of Diego Garcia. British authorities blocked families returning ...

Chagos is nearly three times the area of the British Isles. In 2010, it became the world’s largest marine protected area that bans any form of fishing. Whether the islands remain uninhabited is ...

Last week, after six decades of acrimonious legal battles, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands ... Peros Banhos and Salomon Atoll, few wish to do so.

The Mauritian government has long argued that the Chagos Islands bear significant comparison to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories thousands of miles away. Their position was ...

Last week, the British government announced that it has agreed to give up ownership of the Chagos Islands, a territory in the Indian Ocean it has controlled since 1814 — relinquishing the .io ...

The British government announced last week that it is handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius under an agreement that will see the American naval and bomber base stay on one of the islands ...