This post tells the fascinating story of two recent and remarkable developments in the decolonization of the Chagos ...
The UK decision was welcomed by India and the US, and shows a capacity for fresh thinking. But the transfer of sovereignty ...
Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...
Deal handing sovereignty of British Indian Ocean Territory was reached between UK and Mauritius, with the White House voicing ...
The recent transfer of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius marks the end of the last African colony of the United Kingdom and ...
THE Chagos Islands are an archipelago (group of islands) that have made headlines after the UK agreed to hand sovereignty over the islands to Mauritius.  One of the islands, Diego Garcia, is ...
The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos ... Territory since being administratively detached in 1965 from what was then the colony of Mauritius. Except for the ...
The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a UK Overseas Territory situated halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia and comprising the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago, itself comprising over 1 ...
The United Kingdom says it has reached a "historic" deal to cede the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to the Republic ...
Starmer has declared ‘open season’ for Madrid to pursue international support for its claim to the Rock, warns former defence ...
Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...
Under the deal reached by Sir Keir Starmer with Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth, the British Indian Ocean Territory ...