The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been known as the British Indian Ocean Territory since being administratively ...

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 ...

The Chagos Archipelago became a British territory in 1814. In 1965, the U.K. formally separated the islands from its then-colony Mauritius, before Mauritius gained independence three years later.

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

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

Britain split the Chagos 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 ...

LONDON (AP) — The governments of Britain and Mauritius have reached a final deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, the contested archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean that's ...

Note: This is part three of a three-part series on the proposed handover of the Chagos Archipelago from the UK to Mauritius. Part one — Why the Proposed UK-Mauritius Handover Would Be a Strategic Blow ...

The Chagos Islands, an archipelago of 58 islands in the Indian Ocean about halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia, were given to Britain by France in 1814 during the Napoleonic Wars.