THE Chagos Islands are an archipelago (group of islands) that have made headlines after the UK agreed to hand sovereignty over the islands to Mauritius.  One of the islands, Diego Garcia, is ...

Chagos is an archipelago of 50 plus islands and ... The Chagos Islands became a British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965, when they were legally severed from Mauritius, three years ahead of its ...

After almost 59 years of controversial existence, the last vestige of the British Empire in the Indian Ocean, the British ...

A future treaty to that effect will end London's administration of what it currently calls the British Indian Ocean Territory ... splitting from the Chagos Archipelago in the process.

The UK established the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) in 1965, which incorporated the Chagos Archipelago. These islands were detached from Mauritius after independence in 1968, with the UK ...

The western Indian Ocean’s Chagos Archipelago, with the exception of Diego Garcia, is no longer part of the British Indian ...

The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...

For administrative purposes, Britain grouped the Chagos Archipelago and several ... condemned the British Indian Ocean Territory decision. He said: 'Weak, weak, weak! Labour lied to get into ...

Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of a remote Indian Ocean archipelago ... The British government has been under pressure for decades to hand over the Chagos Islands to ...

THE Chagos Islands are an archipelago that ... This restriction also applies to the wider British Indian Ocean Territory, which encompasses the islands. Because of these restrictions, it is ...

The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a UK Overseas Territory situated halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia and comprising the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago, itself comprising ...