Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands? - The African island ...

A British minister denied on Wednesday media reports that the government could end up paying billions of pounds more to ...

A group of indigenous Chagossian people ... to the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia. And Mauritius will be free to develop a programme of resettlement on the islands, other than Diego ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base.

The Chagos islanders were expelled from the Indian Ocean archipelago ... Chagos islands any different from the Falkland Islands or Gibraltar? The UK government has always said the people who ...

The UK took control of the Chagos Islands, or British Indian Ocean Territory, from its then colony, Mauritius, in 1965 and went on to evict its population of more than 1,000 people to make way for ...

Now, The Independent understands that Chagossian Voices, a group representing people who originate from the Chagos Islands ... Mauritian sovereignty over the archipelago, which is located some ...