The Chagos Islands became a British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965, when they were legally severed from Mauritius, three years ahead of its independence. Mauritius, ...

Dame Priti Patel asked whether ministers ‘are afraid’ of Labour backbenchers, who might ‘force them into another embarrassing ...

The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a British overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia. Mauritius wants control over ...

The Chagos Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Africa and Indonesia. Pictures From History/Universal ...

In the final analysis, the British Indian Ocean Territory is illegal, unpopular, unsustainable, and unnecessary. Decolonization in one form or another is an inevitability.

British navy ships rescued dozens and brought them to Diego Garcia, the largest of the disputed Chagos Islands in the British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot) – long claimed by Mauritius – and ...

I recognize that the British Indian Ocean Territory is different from the Falkland Islands, and there are different perspectives, narratives and parameters, but one thing that is not divisible and ...

Diego Garcia, the largest in the Chagos group in the central Indian Ocean, is about 1,300 miles northeast of Mauritian capital Port Louis.For half a century, it has been a staging area for major ...

Various contributors to The Interpreter’s Chagos Question debate assert that Britain’s controversial claim to the Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory – BIOT) violates the rules-based ...