A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the rights of the Chagossian people.

The U.K. hands Chagos Islands over to Mauritius but says it will secure a U.S. base By Fatima Al-Kassab Published May 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM CDT ...

Chagos has seven atolls and around 60 islands; of these, Diego Garcia is by far the largest. Mauritius is an island off the east coast of Madagascar, also an island, which is off the coast of ...

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 ...

In 1965 the UK detached the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and several Islands from the Seychelles and created the new ...

Britain split the 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 Territory.

People demonstrate outside the High Court in London, Thursday, May 22, 2025, after a British court blocked the U.K. from transferring sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius hours before ...

The U.K. hands Chagos Islands over to Mauritius but says it will secure a U.S. base By Fatima Al-Kassab Published May 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM EDT ...

LONDON — The United Kingdom has signed a deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in an agreement Britain says will also ensure the future of a strategically important U ...