After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...
Now that Sir Keir Starmer has unilaterally decided to give up British ownership of the Chagos Islands, the last vestige of ...
Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is strictly out of bounds to most civilians, despite being home to beaches ...
The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – after a long dispute ...
Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the future of ...
Both Mauritius, an island nation off the eastern coast of Africa, and the Chagos Islands, an archipelago of over 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, were formerly British colonies. Due to the Chagos ...
The British government made the deal to return all the Chagos Islands, except for Diego Garcia, which holds a U.K.-U.S. Navy base.
which is off the coast of south-east Africa. Chagos archipelago is a strategic point in the Indian Ocean between Africa and India, which is why it is a useful spot for nations seeking regional ...