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 ...

After years of negotiations and legal pressure, the UK and the Republic of Mauritius have agreed that Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago. The Chagos Archipelago is a group of seven ...

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 ...

But by the time Mauritius was preparing for its independence from Britain in 1968, alternative plans were being made to detach the Chagos archipelago ... British Government set up under a ...

Protection of pristine coral reefs in the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean could be set to change – pictured here from Diego Garcia, the largest and only inhabited island. John Parker ...

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 ...

jointly agree to maintain the Chagos archipelago’s fully protected status, in the interests of marine conservation. Mohamed Nasheed is the Secretary General of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF ...

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 ...

THE Chagos Islands are an archipelago that have made headlines after the UK agreed to hand sovereignty over the group to Mauritius. One of the islands, Diego Garcia, is especially important when ...

Meanwhile Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands in the Chagos Archipelago ... The British government has not set out how it will respond to the ICJ’s non-statutory ruling on the Israeli ...