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

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago ... Except for the US military base on Diego Garcia at the southern tip of the archipelago, the islands ...

Chagossians were not allowed to return to their homes. Diego Garcia, the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago, was leased out to the US for a military base (Britain and the US will continue to ...

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...

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

Furthermore, the new treaty would allow the vast military base on Diego Garcia, where most Chagossians are from, to remain under the joint UK-US control ... to detach the Chagos archipelago ...

Except for the US military base on Diego Garcia at the ... The announcement of an agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago might end years of dispute between the UK and ...

It hovered around 1,000 in the first half of the 20th century. At the request of the US, the UK authorities depopulated the Chagos Archipelago to make way for the military base. From 1967 to 1973, ...

London, however, has been reluctant to abandon the Chagos Archipelago. This is because the largest island, Diego Garcia, is the site of a strategically important US military base. Britain pledged to ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The UK has agreed to transfer Sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos ... for the US military base on Diego Garcia at the southern tip of the archipelago, the ...