Chagos deal sparks uproar as the U.K. pays 30 billion pounds to Mauritius, loses critical territory and gives way to China's ...

First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

How long have the Chagos Islands been in UK hands? Britain took control of Mauritius from 1810 when it was seized from the French. Between 1814 and 1965 the Chagos Archipelago was administered by the ...

Britain took control of Mauritius from 1810 when it was seized from the French. Between 1814 and 1965 the Chagos Archipelago was administered by the UK as a dependency of the Mauritius colony.

However, the Chagossian people’s identity and resettlement remain unresolved. The Chagos Archipelago is an integral part of Mauritius, an island nation in East Africa. Three years before the country ...

Mauritius will face "very significant logistical challenges" to resettling the outer islands of the Chagos archipelago and it is "necessarily uncertain" that the Mauritian government will ever be ...

Meanwhile, Mauritius's chief legal adviser this morning told peers that ex-residents of the Chagos Islands were consulted on the deal to hand over sovereignty of the archipelago.

Mauritius is ‘likely’ to resume its campaign to secure a judgment on sovereignty against Britain unless the agreement is rubber-stamped, ...

More recently in a China-Mauritius meeting on August 1 last year – according to a Mauritian press release – the Chinese representative “reiterated China’s aid to Mauritius in its quest for sovereignty ...