UK gives sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The US base on Diego Garcia stays
The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...
UK cedes Chagos Islands to Mauritius, minus US base
Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...
U.K. hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius after long dispute
The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...
Chagos Islands row: Keir Starmer insists deal with Mauritius safeguards 'hugely important' base
UK envoy Jonathan Powell on Friday slammed critics of the Government’s Chagos Islands deal, saying the US was fully on board, ...
UK Agrees to Return Chagos Islands to Mauritius
The British government made the deal to return all the Chagos Islands, except for Diego Garcia, which holds a U.K.-U.S. Navy ...
U.K. to Hand Over Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Ending Colonial-Era Dispute
After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...
UK gives sovereignty of long-contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius, though a key US base remains
The British government agreed to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian ...
Freedom for Chagos islands: UK’s deal with Mauritius will be a win for all
The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...
Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius ‘completely the wrong thing’, says Johnson
Shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell also criticised the move as ‘not a deal’ which previous Conservative foreign ...
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Britain has agreed to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...