A new future for the Chagos is approaching. On April 1st a British government spokesman said that Britain was finalising a ...

Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a U.K. territory that is home to ...

Britain and Mauritius are finalising a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a disputed UK territory that is ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s, Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia ...

Downing Street says the US President has signed off on the deal, meaning it's down to the UK and Mauritius to finalise it.

The crux of Mauritius’s argument is that the Chagos Islands were administered from ... from breaking up colonies without a vote of the people. This has little to do with Mauritius, since the ...

The plan to hand over control of the Chagos Islands, officially known as the ... military base on Diego Garcia and removed thousands of people from their homes on the island.