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 recent transfer of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius marks the end of the last African colony of the United Kingdom and ...
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 ...
Britain ceded control over the Chagos Archipelago after years of negotiations with Mauritius. India has maintained strong ...
In a joint statement with Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth, Keir Starmer said that Mauritius will take control of the islands, ...
Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...
This post tells the fascinating story of two recent and remarkable developments in the decolonization of the Chagos ...
The U.K. says it has reached a "historic" deal to cede the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to the Republic of ...
The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...
Now that Sir Keir Starmer has unilaterally decided to give up British ownership of the Chagos Islands, the last vestige of ...
Without British oversight, experts fear fishing vessels will have free rein to harvest the region, damaging its pristine reef ...