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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

Chagos-born Bernadette Dugasse and Bertrice Pompe, who brought the latest legal challenge, fear it will become even harder to return to their birthplace once Mauritius takes control.

Dugasse was born on the Chagos Islands, which had been under the administration of Mauritius, a former British colony, until 1965, when Britain split them away from Mauritius.

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.

Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a U.K. territory that is home to a major U.S. military base.

A half-century after native inhabitants of the Chagos Islands were forced out to make room for a U.S. military base, a Chagossian leader came to D.C. seeking reparations.

Well, with the announcement that the UK government has after 60 years of control given up sovereignty of the remote Chagos Islands, that has, kinda, happened. Previously off-limits due to a U.S ...

[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 ...