The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is ...

Negotiations between Mauritius and the United Kingdom over the long-disputed Chagos Archipelago are underway, with Mauritius' newly elected government pushing for a fresh look at a deal aimed at ...

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The Chagos islands or Chagos Archipelago is a group of 58 atolls in the Indian Ocean, lying around 2,200km north of Mauritius. Most of these atolls are tiny submerged reefs, but there’s one that ...

Speaking in the Commons this week, Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty said: “Both sides remain committed to concluding a deal on the future of the Chagos archipelago, which protects the ...

Approval from the White House was necessary to broker the deal due to U.S. military cooperation with the U.K. at the joint Diego Garcia base on the archipelago’s largest island. The Chagos ...

LONDON (AP) — Two women born on the Chagos Islands are seeking to take the British government to court over a proposed deal to transfer sovereignty of the disputed Indian Ocean archipelago to ...