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 ...
The UK will return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but Diego Garcia will remain under UK-US control. Chagossians, displaced ...
A 2019 World Court opinion on the Chagos Islands bears significant comparison to the recent ruling on Israel’s occupation of ...
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 ...
After decades of legal battles, Britain has agreed to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former colony. The remote ...
The archipelago was acquired in the 1960s and a US military base established by displacing the indigenous population to ...
Freedom for Chagos islands: by Peter Harris Associate Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University Britain is close to resolving its territorial dispute with Mauritius over the Chagos ...
Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...