UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius - BBC News
WEB11 hours ago · For decades, the tiny island nation of Mauritius struggled to win any serious international support on the issue. A handful of Chagos islanders, who’d been forced to abandon their homes in the ...
UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius - BBC
WEBNews. US Election . Sport. Business ... Britain later apologised for forcibly removing more than 1,000 islanders from the entire archipelago and promised to hand the islands to Mauritius when they ...
U.K. to Return Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Ending Colonial-Era …
WEB10 hours ago · Britain’s control of the Chagos Islands has come under increased criticism in recent years, with the United Nations and international courts agreeing with Mauritius’ claim that it was ...
UK to hand over sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... - Sky News
WEB11 hours 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 ...
UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to ... - Associated Press News
WEB10 hours ago · The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, ... The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in ...
UK agrees to give sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
WEB11 hours 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 ...
Britain agrees Chagos Island sovereignty deal with Mauritius
WEB11 hours ago · Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people displaced decades ago to return home while London retains use of the UK-U ...
Mauritius reaches sovereignty deal with Britain over Chagos …
WEB6 hours ago · As part of the agreement, Mauritius will now be able to resettle people on the islands of the Chagos Archipelago, with the exception of Diego Garcia. Britain and the United States evicted the ...
UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal to …
WEB9 hours ago · 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
Mauritius Agrees Deal With UK on Chagos Archipelago
WEB11 hours ago · The Mauritian government said it’s reached an agreement with the UK regarding the Indian Ocean island nation’s sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago.