The Labour Party, in its left-wing zeal for anti-imperialism, is ironically pushing us into the hands of a nation far less ...
A Labour MP questioned claims by the Foreign Secretary that the Government has engaged with the Chagossians throughout the ...
Foreign Secretary David Lammy has been accused of misleading MPs over his “bonkers” agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands ...
Exclusive: A group representing indigenous Chagossians are gearing up to challenge the government’s controversial deal to ...
The UK will not sign off on a deal to give up a top secret island to Mauritius until Donald Trump has taken office, Downing ...
Britain’s government has confirmed that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands ...
Elderly Chagossians, living in Mauritius, have echoed that criticism and accused Britain of deliberately dragging its heels on the issue in the hope that the community will simply die out.
As Mauritius and the UK scramble to finalise the terms of a treaty to hand over the Chagos Islands before Donald Trump ...
Chagossians were forced to leave their homeland in the 1960s and 1970s, after Britain bought the chain of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean and established a military base, which it leased ...
Between 1968 and 1974, the UK forcibly removed thousands of Chagossians from their homelands and sent them more than 1,600km (1,000 miles) away to Mauritius and the Seychelles, where they faced ...
Exclusive: Foreign secretary has been criticised by one of his own MPs as the controversial deal looks to be on the brink of ...
Consequently, about 2,000 Chagossians were expelled between 1968 and 1973, in what Human Rights Watch has called a “crime against humanity.” Mauritius brought a case to the International Court ...