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

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...

This post tells the fascinating story of two recent and remarkable developments in the decolonization of the Chagos ...

The UK will return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but Diego Garcia will remain under UK-US control. Chagossians, displaced ...

The UK decision was welcomed by India and the US, and shows a capacity for fresh thinking. But the transfer of sovereignty must be handled carefully.

What started as a bid for the UK to mend fences with its former colonies may, in fact, evolve into a major turning point for ...

The domain .io has been a constant presence in the tech sphere. It is tied to the British Indian Ocean Territory, a British ...

The United Kingdom's recent decision to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former British colony, was a ...

Now that Sir Keir Starmer has unilaterally decided to give up British ownership of the Chagos Islands, the last vestige of ...

When Great Britain began to decolonise its Indian Ocean territories, there was no logic or reason why the islands should be ...

Mauritius is getting sovereignty over the remote Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, but Britain will continue to ...