The council has seen its migrant housing bill soar to £18 million after an influx of Chagos Islanders increased existing ...

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.

Mr Tuckwell said many of the Chagossian arrivals have children, and the council had a legal responsibility to find temporary ...

Mauritius has long contested Britain’s claim to the archipelago, and the United Nations and its top court have urged Britain to return the Chagos to Mauritius, around 2,100 kilometers (1,250 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the lead up however, in 1965, the U.K. excised Chagos from Mauritius, following conversations with the United States on building a joint naval base in the island of Diego Garcia to meet ...

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 ...

And Mauritius needs to build effective working partnerships with the UK, Chagossians, scientists and the wider global community to deliver a sustainable future for the Chagos archipelago.

Chagos-born Bernadette Dugasse and Bertrice Pompe, who brought the latest legal challenge, fear it will become even harder to return to their birthplace once Mauritius takes control. READ: The 10 ...