Chagossians claim they were repeatedly refused the chance to take part in negotiations behind the historic deal.
People from the Chagos Islands have been voicing their concerns over news the UK is giving up sovereignty and handing over ...
Activists have decried a deal that the UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius with the exception of ...
Chagossians living in Crawley have hit out at the government’s decision to hand the Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius.
The former prime minister said the deal, which saw Britain hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, is a ‘terrible, ...
The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...
Some Chagossians the BBC spoke to broadly welcomed the deal, but many said indigenous people had been repeatedly refused an opportunity to take part in talks. The Foreign Office said the interests ...
Exclusive: A group of indigenous Chagossians are planning to stage a protest over the decision to hand the archipelago over ...
It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism. Here was a British government offering – how generous of them – to return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, ...
The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...
Chagossians living in the UK have accused Sir Keir Starmer of treating them like ‘second-class citizens’. The minority ethnic group were expelled from their homeland in the 1960s when Britain ...
Chagossians were forced to leave their homeland, and many settled in Crawley in West Sussex, when Britain bought the islands in the Indian Ocean in the 1960s and a United States-leased military ...