The sliteye shark has been recorded for the first time on the Great Chagos Bank, the world's largest coral atoll ...

Chagos Islands deal will see Mauritius ‘receive £35bn over 99 years’ - Dame Priti Patel has accused ministers of trying to ...

Large ocean animals can be protected throughout much of their lifecycle by huge Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), new research ...

Scientists tracked sea turtles, manta rays and seabirds – all of which travel far and wide to forage, breed and migrate – in ...

Conclusion The Chagos Archipelago is a strategically vital component of Western security’s global footprint. It has been under continuous UK sovereignty for over two centuries. A recent deal between ...

In 2019 the U.N. General Assembly demanded in a non-binding resolution that the British government end its "colonial administration" of the Chagos Archipelago and that they be returned to Mauritius.

LONDON – The governments of Britain and Mauritius signed a deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, the contested archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean, after overcoming last ...

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 ...

The U.K. formally detached the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965, calling it the British Indian Ocean Territory. In 1968, Mauritius gained its independence from the U.K.

Conservative shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel accused ministers of trying to ‘cover up’ the cost of ceding the ...

Ordinarily, this is a daunting task when there are so many competing objectives and so much background noise in parliament. On the Chagos Archipelago issue however, the stakes might be high enough – ...