After 50 years of struggle, Chagossians won a major victory over the most powerful governments in the world. David Vine This ...

Located deep in the heart of the Indian Ocean, the Chagos Islands lie between Africa and Indonesia, about 500 km due south of The Maldives, directly in the path of the same swell lines that roar ...

Fears over future of Falklands after Chagos Islands deal dubbed ‘strategic disaster’ Exclusive: A group of indigenous Chagossians are planning to stage a protest over the decision to hand the ...

The governments of Britain and Mauritius signed a deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, the contested archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean, after overcoming last-minute legal ...

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.

Sir Keir Starmer has signed over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after an earlier challenge was overturned, allowing the agreement to go ahead. Speaking to journalists on Thursday afternoon ...

The Chagos Islands pointed out on a map. Picture: Getty Many of the 4,000 strong Chagossian population have campaigned for it to come under the sovereignty of Mauritius, another island collective that ...

Britain split the Chagos Islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean ...

Though small in land area, the island state claims a maritime zone spanning 2.3 million square km, roughly the same as the area of Africa's largest country, Algeria, and covering "important ...

The map locates the Chagos Islands, which includes the island of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean, ... an island off the southeastern coast of Africa, to Britain as a colony.

Just imagine if a 60-strong tropical island chain with the world's largest atoll, a third of the size of the area of all Maldives but far more open to Indian Ocean swells, suddenly appeared on the ...