Mauritius gained independence in 1968, but the Chagos Islands, an inseparable part of Mauritius, became a part of what came to be known as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), a new English ...

The Government announced that the UK will hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... agitating for sovereignty over this distant atoll? We may never know; but it leaves Britain ...

The Government announced that the UK will hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... Did Beijing push it to start agitating for sovereignty over this distant atoll? We may never know; but ...

Mauritius expects to receive billions of rupees from the UK following an agreement under which Britain ceded sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to the Indian Ocean island nation. “England has ...

When Captain Robert Moresby sailed through the Chagos Islands between 1834 and 1837, to conduct the first survey of the archipelago by a British explorer, he was struck by the atoll’s remarkable ...

Earlier this month, the British government, led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy, announced an agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands, a British overseas ...

The United Kingdom’s handing over of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius “raises questions” over the future of the country’s sovereign base areas in Cyprus, former United Nations special ...

Spain has been emboldened to ramp up its claims over Gibraltar by the Government’s surrender of the Chagos Islands, a former defence secretary has warned. Sir Michael Fallon said that Sir Keir ...

MPs accused Labour of emboldening Spain after their recent “surrender” of the Chagos Islands ... “this government doesn’t have a great track record on negotiations”.

Putting aside the intricacies of the 1960 London-Zurich Agreement, one sees clear parallels, albeit on the surface, between that of the Chagos Archipelago and the two British bases on Cyprus.

Sourced by the Telegraph The Mauritian government’s public thanks to India for its support over the Chagos Islands dispute only underlines the anguish of a tiny community that has been kicked around ...