The Prime Minister announced earlier this week that the UK will be handing the Indian Ocean islands over to Mauritius.

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, ...

Exclusive: A group of indigenous Chagossians are planning to stage a protest over the decision to hand the archipelago over ...

Mauritius says the UK's handing over of the long-contested Chagos Islands draws an important line under the archipelago's colonial history.

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...

F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...

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The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...

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The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...