The Latest Breaking News from Chagos Islands

On 15 February 2022 the Mauritian flag was raised on two Indian Ocean atolls, Peros Banos and Salomon, both belonging to the Chagos archipelago. This was the first time that Mauritius’ flag was raised in the Chagos Islands, even though there is clear evidence that these 60 islands form part…

'The object of the exercise is to get some rocks which will remain ours.... There will be no indigenous population except seagulls," wrote Sir Paul Gore-Booth, a senior official at the British Foreign Office, as the plan to expel the 2,000 Chagos Islanders from their homes was taking shape in…

Row breaks out over Google Maps definition as UK insists it still maintains sovereignty

The decolonisation of Mauritius was never fully completed. This is because, in 1965, the British government put islands belonging to Mauritius into a new colonial jurisdiction, the British Indian Ocean Territory, which still exists today. It is long past time for this colonial-era wrongdoing to be made right, and for…

Britain has reaffirmed its sovereignty over a remote Indian Ocean archipelago after Mauritius underlined its own territorial claim by planting a flag on the islands

The UK has had sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory since 1814

Mauritian ambassador to UN raises country’s flag above atoll of Peros Banhos

Exiles intend to plant Mauritian flag on land UK claims as part of British Indian Ocean Territory

Surrey-based Pobjoy Mint accused of violating international law by producing fish-decorated currency

Women on Mauritian-chartered vessel bound for Chagos Islands recall how life there was ‘paradise’

A delegation from Mauritius set sail Tuesday to the Chagos Islands to press the country’s claim for the strategically important Indian Ocean archipelago, which is also claimed by Britain and is home to an American military base