Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.
Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...
The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a UK Overseas Territory situated halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia and comprising the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago, itself comprising over 1 ...
The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – after a long dispute ...
An agreement between the UK and Mauritian governments could see thousands of exiled Chagossians resettled again.
India played a pivotal yet understated role in resolving the decades-long dispute over the Chagos archipelago. The historic agreement, which returned sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius after two ...
Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of a remote Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius but will maintain ...
For years, Mauritius demanded the UK end its control on the Chagos Archipelago. Why was their ownership a matter of ...
The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...