Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

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

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...

India has maintained strong support for Mauritius over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands and played a quiet but important ...

F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...

With the UK government handing sovereignty over the Mauritius on Thursday, what could this mean for the future of other ...

An agreement between the UK and Mauritian governments could see thousands of exiled Chagossians resettled again.

The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – after a long dispute ...

In a landmark pact, the UK recognizes Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, including Diego Garcia, amid Indian ...

This historic move will also handover the sovereignty of Diego Garcia - which is one of the islands in Chagos used by the ...

The territory claimed by the UK overlaps the Antarctic claims of Argentina (Argentine Antarctica) and Chile (Chilean ...