The Chagos Archipelago became a British territory in 1814. In 1965, the U.K. formally separated the islands from its then-colony Mauritius, before Mauritius gained independence three years later.

A legal challenge demanding the UK Government consult Chagossians before transferring sovereignty of their homeland has ...

In 2017 China abstained on a UN General Assembly vote which asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to deliver an ...

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the ...

Chagos deal sparks uproar as the U.K. pays 30 billion pounds to Mauritius, loses critical territory and gives way to China's ...

May 22 (UPI) --The British government signed-off Thursday on ceding the Chagos Islands back over to Mauritius after a last-minute court ruling delayed the transfer of international territory."The ...

But not the Chagos islands, which had been part of Mauritius but became a new colonial territory. The residents of the largest island in the archipelago, Diego Garcia, were forced off the land.

The Chagos Archipelago is a group of six atolls with more than 600 individual islands in the Indian Ocean, 500 km (300 miles) south of the Maldives and halfway between Africa and Indonesia.

Campaigners launch judicial review to stop Government from signing away islands without consulting Chagossians ...

A year later, on March 12, 1968, Mauritius gained freedom from the British and U.K paid a £3 million grant in recognition of the detachment of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and amongst ...

It is to be noted here that India has expressed support for the treaty between Mauritius and the United Kingdom that returns control of the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, to Mauritius.

Mauritius will face "very significant logistical challenges" to resettling the outer islands of the Chagos archipelago and it is "necessarily uncertain" that the Mauritian government will ever be ...