The UK Government said earlier it had reached a political agreement with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands, also known as the ...
After decades of wrangling over the fate of the Chagos Islands ... The Diego Garcia atoll - the biggest of the islands, which covers just 10 square miles of dry land - serves as a strategically ...
Shadow science secretary Andrew Griffith said the area included the Great Chagos Bank, the world’s largest coral atoll, as ...
The British government is to hand over sovereignty of the disputed Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a historic deal after years of negotiations, it has emerged. This includes the tropical atoll of ...
The Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean comprise seven atolls, with the northernmost atoll called Peros Banhos ... United Kingdom sovereignty. When Great Britain began to decolonise its Indian ...
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 ...
The deal – reached after years of negotiations - will see the UK hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a historic move. This includes the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, used by the US ...
London [UK], October 3 (ANI): A joint statement was released by the governments of the Republic of Mauritius and the United Kingdom on the resolution of stalemate regarding the Chagos Archipelago ...
Labour’s surrender of the Chagos Islands puts at risk one of the world's largest marine protected areas, MPs and campaigners have warned. The Chagos Marine Protected Area is one of the world's ...