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 ...

After almost 59 years of controversial existence, the last vestige of the British Empire in the Indian Ocean, the British ...

A treaty finalized by the UK may bring about the end of the .io domain. Last week, the British government announced that it ...

Mauritius is a stable and prosperous Indian Ocean archipelago. Once dependent on sugar exports, the island has built up a ...

The UK has offered dozens of stranded migrants, held for years in a camp on a secretive UK-US military island in the Indian ...

This post tells the fascinating story of two recent and remarkable developments in the decolonization of the Chagos ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago protested outside the U.K. Parliament on Monday against a ...

Without British oversight, experts fear fishing vessels will have free rein to harvest the region, damaging its pristine reef ...

UNHCR has approved a request by the UK to transfer 36 Sri Lankan asylum seekers from Diego Garcia and Rwanda to a transit ...

I am disgusted with the Labour Government for its appalling capitulation to Mauritius, by surrendering our sovereignty of the ...

More than 50 years after the U.K. expelled thousands of locals from the Chagos Islands, the British government has agreed to ...