Under the new political agreement, the UK will provide financial support to Mauritius, including a new trust fund for ...

Now that Sir Keir Starmer has unilaterally decided to give up British ownership of the Chagos Islands, the last vestige of ...

After years of negotiations and legal pressure, the UK and the Republic of Mauritius have agreed that Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago ... restricted supplies and wound down work on ...

(2022) QUESTION 2: Evaluate the strategic significance of the Chagos ... archipelago in the Indian Ocean. These islands were uninhabited until the late 18th century, when the French brought in slave ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been known as the British Indian Ocean Territory since being administratively ...

Chagossians were not allowed to return to their homes. Diego Garcia, the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago, was leased out to the US for a military base (Britain and the US will continue to ...

The announcement of an agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago might end years of dispute between the UK and Mauritius governments over jurisdiction. But it marks the humble ...

Britain is close to resolving its territorial dispute with Mauritius over the Chagos Archipelago, located in the central Indian Ocean. For years, Mauritius has claimed the island group as part of its ...

In the late 1930s, the Sultan of the Maldives sent expeditions to the Atoll to count and mark with his seal the coconut palms ... agree to maintain the Chagos archipelago’s fully protected ...

Diego Garcia is the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). It has been used as a joint UK-US military base since the 1970s, following the ...