First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

A legal challenge demanding the UK Government consult Chagossians before transferring sovereignty of their homeland has ...

The Chagossians were expelled from the islands between 1965 and 1973 to make way for the Diego Garcia base and have not been allowed to return.But Mr Sands told peers the “quid pro quo” for ...

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

The UK has signed a £3.4bn ($4.6bn) deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control of a UK-US military base on Diego Garcia - the largest of the islands.

Chagossians living in Britain said fresh doubts over a deal to hand sovereignty of their islands to Mauritius had given them a "last chance" to demand a rethink, and pledged to protest at the ...

Campaigners launch judicial review to stop Government from signing away islands without consulting Chagossians ...

Chagossians Want a Say as UK-Mauritius Deal Faces Fresh Scrutiny By Catarina Demony and Ben Makori CRAWLEY, England (Reuters) - Chagossians living in Britain said fresh doubts over a deal to hand ...

Some Chagossians the BBC spoke to broadly welcomed the deal, but many said indigenous people had been repeatedly refused an opportunity to take part in talks.

By 1973, all Indigenous Chagossians were forced to leave. Thousands of islanders and their descendants are now spread around the world, most living in Mauritius, the U.K. and Seychelles.

Chagossians living in the UK have accused Sir Keir Starmer of treating them like ‘second-class citizens’.. The minority ethnic group were expelled from their homeland in the 1960s when Britain ...