The Chagos Archipelago (formerly called the Oil Islands) is a cluster of islands in the central Indian Ocean, administered by the United Kingdom, and having a total land area of 197square kilometers. They are actually a group of atolls arranged in a...

The Chagos Archipelago is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical islands roughly in the centre of the Indian Ocean. The Chagos lies about 500 km (300 miles) due south of the Maldives, its nearest neighbour, 1600 km (1000...

YOU kicked us out of our homes 30 years ago. Now we want to go back. That, in essence, is the case that the Ilois, the erstwhile inhabitants of the Chagos Islands, have been pressing in the high court in London this month....

Prior to Mauritius' independence in 1968, the colonial power, Great Britain, divested the Chagos archipelago from Mauritian territory, renaming the islands part of the 'British Indian Overseas Territory' (BIOT). Then they evicted the Chagossians who had inhabited these islands for centuries. It...