The UK-Mauritius treaty on the Chagos Archipelago will transfer sovereignty of the islands back to Mauritius, while maintaining an initial 99-year lease on the joint UK/US military base on Diego ...

A legal challenge demanding the UK Government consult Chagossians before transferring sovereignty of their homeland has ...

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First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

Chagos Islands deal must be ratified to secure Diego Garcia, peers say - Mauritius is ‘likely’ to resume its campaign to ...

The Chagos Islands, an archipelago of 58 islands in the Indian Ocean about halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia, were given to Britain by France in 1814 during the Napoleonic Wars.

Chagos Archipelago is shownon the map. Screenshot from the video “The Chagos Archipelago returns to Mauritius on the Tv5monde YouTube Channel After decades of political conflict, the United Kingdom ...

John Healey has robustly defended the UK’s Chagos Islands deal, insisting the agreement needed to be struck to defend Britain’s interests as he appeared at a military conference. The Defence ...

Britain took control of Mauritius from 1810 when it was seized from the French. Between 1814 and 1965 the Chagos Archipelago was administered by the UK as a dependency of the Mauritius colony.

Healey defends Chagos Islands deal as ‘vital’ to UK’s long-term interests The Defence Secretary was asked about the upsides of ‘giving away’ the Indian Ocean archipelago as he spoke at a ...

The Defence Secretary was asked about the upsides of “giving away the Chagos Islands” as he spoke at the Royal United Services Institute’s (Rusi) land warfare conference in central London. Under the ...