The islands form part of the Chagos-Laccadive Ridge, an underwater mountain range that also includes the Lakshadweep Islands and the Maldives. Located some 1,300 miles northeast of Mauritius’ capital, ...

Chagos is nearly three times the area of the British Isles. In 2010, it became the world's largest marine protected area that bans any form of fishing. The shallow water coral reefs account for 1. ...

Sir Humphrey Appleby’s astute observation about the state of politicians in Yes Minister continues to hold true as Britain has agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands, a necklace of tropical islands in ...

Chagos is nearly three times the area of the British Isles. In 2010, it became the world’s largest marine protected area that bans any form of fishing. Whether the islands remain uninhabited is ...

As news broke out that the United Kingdom had made arrangements to hand over its last colony in Africa, very little was said about the people it drove out of the Chagos Islands during its ...

ominous realities was on pathetic display a few days ago when Britain announced that it was turning over the Chagos Islands, where we have a crucial military base, to Mauritius, which is off the ...

The British government announced last week that it is handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius under an agreement that will see the American naval and bomber base stay on one of the islands ...

The Mauritian government has long argued that the Chagos Islands bear significant comparison to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories thousands of miles away. Their position was ...

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 group of Tamils became the first to claim asylum on Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands in 2021 after their boat ran into trouble. The Government is now offering dozens of them a deal whereby ...