While diplomacy is critical, the UK’s decision to hand over the sovereignty to Mauritius over the Chagos Islands couldn’t have come through without the ICJ decision and the use of international law by ...

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

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

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

Mauritius' Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth announced that the return of the Chagos Islands marks the completion of the nation ...

The UK had controlled the region since 1814 and had detached the Chagos Islands in 1965 from Mauritius to create the British ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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