New prime minister says UK’s proposed handover of the islands ‘would not produce the benefits that the nation could expect’ ...
He called again for a referendum for the Chagossian people to decide who gets sovereignty of the islands, rather than ...
When Mauritius became independent in the 1960s, London retained control of the Chagos Islands and forcibly displaced up to 2,000 people in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for the base.