Chagos in a sentence

Chagos Marine Protected Area On 1 April 2010, the Chagos Marine Protected Area (MPA) was declared to cover the waters around the Chagos Archipelago.

As the leader of the Chagos Refugees Group, I have spoken to people around the world, asking them to support our struggle to return home and to be compensated for our loss.

But it did not address the question of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago.

Henry Smith has urged the Government to stiffen its resolve and ignore international pressure to recognise Mauritius’s claim on the Chagos Islands.

But he warned that the “problems” in Lammy’s relationship with Trump would come from other issues, such as “giving away the Chagos Islands, where there's a very important US naval base”.

Furious Tories accuse Keir Starmer of 'surrendering' Chagos Islands to an 'ally of Beijing' after historic.

Labour Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty said migrant deal was an "interim contingency solution" before Mauritius takes control of the Chagos Islands.

The biggest island in the archipelago, Diego Garcia was leased to the US in 1966 for use as a military base and the Chagos Islanders were removed from their homeland and forbidden to return.

The president's calmer stance is inspired by the case of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean that was handed over from the United Kingdom to Mauritius after nearly 40 years of talks and 13 rounds of negotiations.

These include stripping ten million pensioners of their winter fuel payment and giving up sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

The Tories criticised the drafting in of “another Labour apparatchik” and highlighted past remarks made by Mr Powell relating to the Chagos Islands.

A group supporting the rights of people indigenous to the Chagos Islands said they were considering options for filing a case against Britain at the International Criminal Court.

And even though U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said he wants “to right one of the wrongs of history” by respecting the Chagos Islands’ independence, Britain has resisted those calls.

The court ruled that Britain carved up Mauritius illegally when it agreed to end colonial rule and must "bring to an end its administration of the Chagos Archipelago".

The United Kingdom is under an obligation to end its administration of the Chagos Archipelago as swiftly as possible, the court said.

While the Chagos Islands is probably not well known to most Africans, situated as it is some 1,800 kilometers (1100 miles) from the nearest African nations of Seychelles and Mauritius, this has a been a long-running saga.

The case is related to sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago which is disputed between Mauritius and the United Kingdom.

The United States recognised that the Chagos Islands’ isolated geography was the perfect location for an Indian Ocean military base.

This month the International Court of Justice (ICJ) began the three-day public hearing on the fate of the Chagos Islands.

A biological survey by the Chagos Conservation Trust reported that the resulting inundation additionally washed away shoreline shrubs and small to medium-size coconut palms.