Chagos islanders displaced for a US military base protest a deal on their future made without them
The Chagos Islands, a tropical archipelago just south of the equator off the tip of India, have been under British control since 1814. They have been known as the British Indian Ocean Territory since 1965 when they were split off from Mauritius, a then-U.K. colony that gained independence three years later.
UK gives sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The US base on Diego Garcia stays
The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to secure the future of a strategically important U.
David Lammy was heckled in the House of Commons as he defended the decision to give up UK control over the Chagos Islands.
Diego Garcia, the largest in the Chagos group in ... said Mauritius was now "free to rent" the Chagos Islands to countries including China, potentially offering Beijing "a military foothold ...
Britain said Thursday it would cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 small islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius but retain control of Diego Garcia ...
An extraordinary blame game has erupted dragging in Liz Truss and James Cleverly following Sir Keir Starmer’s shock decision ...
On the second day of the row over the Chagos Islands, Sir Keir Starmer has defended the government’s decision to hand over ...
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