More than 50 years after the U.K. expelled thousands of locals from the Chagos Islands, the British government has agreed to ...
The United Kingdom agreed last week to return the Chagos Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to the African ...
The environmental impacts of a change in management and human activity depends on what, if any, development takes place and ...
On the Chagos Islands, a group of Sri Lankan migrants have been stranded for years and await news of their fate as Britain hands over the archipelago to Mauritius. Also, the US Marine Corps takes no ...
The UK had controlled the region since 1814 and had detached the Chagos Islands in 1965 from Mauritius to create the British ...
Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...
The Government does not have the Get Out of Jail Free card it imagines when it comes to the matter of the Chagos Islands.
Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...
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 ...
Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...
Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.