UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius - BBC
WEBGetty Images. The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century. The deal – reached ...
Chagos Islands: UK’s last African colony returned to Mauritius - UN News
WEB1 day ago · 3 October 2024 UN Affairs. The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that agreement has been reached to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending decades of dispute and negotiation over Britain’s last African colony. The agreement follows 13 rounds of talks that began in 2022 after Mauritian …
UK deal to hand over Chagos Islands criticised over lack of say for ...
WEB22 hours ago · Britain later apologised for forcibly removing more than 1,000 islanders from the entire archipelago between 1965 and 1973, and promised to hand the islands to Mauritius when they were no longer ...
UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius - BBC News
WEB1 day ago · UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more ...
U.K. to Hand Over Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Ending Colonial …
WEB1 day ago · Oct. 3, 2024, 6:54 a.m. ET. Britain said on Thursday that it would hand over the Chagos Islands, a necklace of tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, ending lengthy, sometimes ...
UK to hand over sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... - Sky News
WEB1 day ago · The UK will hand over sovereignty of the remote Chagos Islands to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute. The deal to transfer the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius includes the tropical atoll ...
Why is the UK handing the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius?
WEB6 hours ago · In 1965, when Mauritius was pushing for independence, the UK conditioned the nation’s freedom on its relinquishing of Chagos. The UK detached the islands to create the British Indian Ocean ...
UK gives sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ... - Associated Press News
WEB1 day ago · Updated 8:05 PM PDT, October 3, 2024. LONDON (AP) — The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to secure the future of a strategically important U.K.-U.S. military base. British Foreign Secretary David ...
UK cedes Chagos Island sovereignty to Mauritius, retains Diego …
WEB1 day ago · LONDON/PORT LOUIS, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the future of the UK-U.S. Diego Garcia military ...
UK agrees to give sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
WEB1 day ago · Fuel tanks at the edge of a military airstrip on Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major US military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean leased from the ...