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

This post tells the fascinating story of two recent and remarkable developments in the decolonization of the Chagos ...

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

The UK has made a foolish trade of hard power for soft, which will quickly evaporate, and gained nothing in return.

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

UK agrees to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius ...

The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is ...

The United Kingdom says it has reached a "historic" deal to cede the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to the Republic ...

[16] Some Chagossians are advocating for a referendum of Chagossians to determine the future of the islands. [17] The Chagos Archipelago was known during this period, appearing on Portuguese charts as ...

For years, Mauritius demanded the UK end its control on the Chagos Archipelago. Why was their ownership a matter of ...

The Republic of Mauritius and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) have, today, reached an agreement ...

The Republic of Mauritius will regain sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, a group of remote but strategically important ...