Mr Tuckwell said many of the Chagossian arrivals have children, and the council had a legal responsibility to find temporary ...

LONDON — The United Kingdom has signed a deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in an agreement Britain says will also ensure the future of a strategically important U ...

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

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the rights of the Chagossian people.

In 2017 China abstained on a UN General Assembly vote which asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to deliver an ...

People demonstrate outside the High Court in London, Thursday, May 22, 2025, after a British court blocked the U.K. from transferring sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius hours before ...

Britain separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 before it became independent in 1968. A leaked internal Foreign Office memo notoriously belittled the Chagossians as “a few Tarzans ...

Campaigners launch judicial review to stop Government from signing away islands without consulting Chagossians ...

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

Members of the House of Lords stress that renewal of the deal in 99 years will depend on the goodwill of the then-government ...

David Lammy criticises a Reform MP for promoting "conspiracy theories" about the Chagos Islands. Discover more about his fierce response.

LONDON — Britain signed an agreement Thursday to hand sovereignty over the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a move the government says ensures the future of a U.S.-U.K. military base that ...