Without British oversight, experts fear fishing vessels will have free rein to harvest the region, damaging its pristine reef ...

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

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...

By walking the decades-old talk on demanding sovereignty for Mauritius and holding firm throughout the negotiation process, ...

a matching .io (Indian Ocean) country code domain in 1997 Fuel tanks at the edge of a miltary airstrip on Diego Garcia, largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major US military base ...

all island countries of the Indian Ocean, including the Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles and Sri Lanka, jointly agree to maintain the Chagos archipelago’s fully protected status, in the interests ...

THE Chagos Islands are an archipelago that have made headlines ... of 60 islands that lie 500km south of the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean. They were claimed by Mauritius, after the country ...

More significant seismic events include the 2003 Bam earthquake. This country is in the collision zone of the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate, where destructive earthquakes often occur.

The islands have been known as the British Indian Ocean Territory since being ... of an agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago might end years of dispute between the UK ...

The Chagos Archipelago is a group of seven coral atolls which comprise more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean. In 1965, as part of negotiations leading to Mauritian independence, the UK government ...