Diego Garcia, Chagos Archipelago
The UK deal on Diego Garcia is positive, but it won’t reverse declining support for the rules-based order
The UK government announced last week that it will cede sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The agreement ends an almost 60-year dispute between the two countries, allowing Chagossians displaced in the early 1970s to return home,
UK gives sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The US base on Diego Garcia stays
The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to secure the future of a strategically important U.
Chagossians ‘deplore’ deal allowing US-UK to keep Diego Garcia Air Base
Activists have decried a deal that the UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius with the exception of Diego Garcia.
UK Cedes Chagos Island Sovereignty to Mauritius, Retains Diego Garcia Airbase
In the early 1970s, Britain evicted almost 2,000 residents to Mauritius and the Seychelles to make way for an airbase on Diego Garcia, the largest island, which it had leased to the United States in 1966.
Diego Garcia: What 'Historic' UK Deal Means for US's Indian Ocean Base
Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.
UK retain Diego Garcia military base, but concede sovereignty over islands
While the UK and US retain a key strategic military base in the Indian Ocean, the two governments remain apprehensive over the security of the island.
UK gives sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius. A key US base remains
The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to secure the future of a strategically important U.
UK hands Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius but keeps key US military base
Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of a remote Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius but will maintain there a strategic military base that it shares with the United States, in what US President Joe Biden described as a "historic agreement".
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UK seeks to move 36 Diego Garcia asylum seekers to Romania
UNHCR has approved a request by the UK to transfer 36 Sri Lankan asylum seekers from Diego Garcia and Rwanda to a transit ...
Diego Garcia blame game deepens as Liz Truss hits out at Boris Johnson for island ‘surrender’
Exclusive: The blame game for who was responsible for the UK handing over the key Indian Ocean islands has now dragged in ...
Chagos islanders displaced for a US military base protest a deal on their future made without them
Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...
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EXCLUSIVE: UK agrees to admit some Diego Garcia asylum seekers
The policy reversal comes as Britain agrees to hand over control of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.
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Raw Deals: The Continued Shafting of the Chagossians
It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism.  Here was a British government offering ...
Lammy defends Chagos Islands sovereignty surrender amid Commons heckling
David Lammy was heckled in the House of Commons as he defended the decision to give up UK control over the Chagos Islands.
Handing over the British overseas territory was a 'profound failing of judgement'.
Professor Doug Stokes warns the government's decision will have lasting consequences for the global balance of power.
Chagos Islands: Where is the archipelago and can I visit the British Indian Ocean Territory?
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 ...