The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...
The UK will return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but Diego Garcia will remain under UK-US control. Chagossians, displaced ...
Mauritius is an ally of China, and Beijing is licking its chops at the prospect of conducting electronic snooping of the base ...
Strategically located between East Africa and Southeast Asia, Diego Garcia serves as a surveillance centre for the Middle ...
In 1965, as part of the decolonisation process, the UK separated the islands from Mauritius, creating a new colony. From 1968 ...
After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...
The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...
After decades of legal battles, Britain has agreed to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former colony. The remote ...
The government of Mauritius has long argued that it was illegally forced to give the Chagos Islands away in return for its ...
After decades of legal battles, Britain has agreed to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former colony. The remote ...
The archipelago was acquired in the 1960s and a US military base established by displacing the indigenous population to ...
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 ...