When Captain Robert Moresby sailed through the Chagos Islands between 1834 and 1837, to conduct the first survey of the ...

After years of negotiations, the UK is giving up its sovereignty over a cluster of strategically important Indian Ocean ...

In a joint statement with Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth, Keir Starmer said that Mauritius will take control of the islands, ...

The British government unsurprisingly wants to draw a line under that sorry history. On October 3rd it announced plans to ...

Britain said Thursday it would cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 small islands in the ...

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...

The UK will return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but Diego Garcia will remain under UK-US control. Chagossians, displaced ...

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. ...

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people displaced decades ago to return home while London retains use of the UK ...

David Lammy was heckled in the House of Commons as he defended the decision to give up UK control over the Chagos Islands. The Foreign Secretary said the UK Government wants the treaty with ...