The Latest Breaking News from Chagos Islands

Forty-two hunger strikers are part of group of 89 Sri Lankans whose boat was intercepted in Indian Ocean by UK military

The nationality and borders bill has been widely condemned as the continuation of a decade-long, Conservative-led immigration regime set on demonstrating that the UK is “tough on immigration”. It has been dubbed the “hostile environment” policy.

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