After 50 years of struggle, Chagossians won a major victory over the most powerful governments in the world. David Vine This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important ...

Britain said on Thursday that it would hand over the Chagos Islands, a necklace of tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, ending lengthy, sometimes acrimonious negotiations that ...

Chagos has seven atolls and around 60 islands; of these, Diego Garcia is by far the largest. Mauritius is an island off the east coast of Madagascar, also an island, which is off the coast of ...

Mauritius, which lies east of Madagascar in southern Africa, is around 1,250 miles southwest of the Chagos Islands. Following a lease agreement with Britain, the U.S. built the naval base at Diego ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

LONDON (AP) — 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.

The U.K. hands Chagos Islands over to Mauritius but says it will secure a U.S. base By Fatima Al-Kassab Published May 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM CDT ...