Mr Tuckwell said many of the Chagossian arrivals have children, and the council had a legal responsibility to find temporary accommodation for families with dependants. The council added that the ...

Mauritius is heavily reliant on offshore services and short-term fiscal gains. It is vulnerable to slow diversification, ...

The Chagos Islands (Google Maps) There is a joint UK-US military base on Diego Garcia, part of the cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean that makes up the Chagos Islands (PA Media) ...

The Chagos islands are geographically far away (1,200 miles) from Mauritius, and, as mentioned earlier, the U.K. already compensated Mauritius.

The Chagos Agreement is not only a diplomatic achievement, but also a “contractual transposition” of the decisions of international courts and tribunals. The Agreement acknowledges that the detachment ...

The agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago, while retaining a ...

The agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago, while retaining a ...

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago protested outside the U.K. Parliament on Monday.

[45] Chagos Award ¶ 15. A challenge by Mauritius to the appointment of Judge Sir Christopher Greenwood (who, it alleged, lacked sufficient independence from the UK), was made in May 2011 and ...

It's one island in the Chagos Archipelago. Thousands of Indigenous people who live there on the Chagos Islands were forced from their homeland 50 years ago to make way for that base.

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.