Without British oversight, experts fear fishing vessels will have free rein to harvest the region, damaging its pristine reef ...
Now that Sir Keir Starmer has unilaterally decided to give up British ownership of the Chagos Islands, the last vestige of ...
The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...
Under the new political agreement, the UK will provide financial support to Mauritius, including a new trust fund for ...
Except for the US military base on Diego Garcia at the southern tip of the archipelago ... reef ecosystems on our planet. Chagos is nearly three times the area of the British Isles.
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 ...