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 ...
UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius - BBC News
WEB19 hours 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 ...
UK gives sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ... - Associated Press News
WEB18 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 a deal to secure the future of a strategically important U.K.-U.S. military base. British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the …
U.K. to Hand Over Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Ending Colonial …
WEB18 hours 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 ...
Chagos Islands: UK’s last African colony returned to Mauritius
WEB9 hours ago — Before granting independence to Mauritius in 1968, Britain was found to have unlawfully separated it to form a new colony on the Chagos archipelago named the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). The UK had initially dismissed UN rulings and court judgements demanding it return the islands to Mauritius, …
Chagossians criticise lack of say in UK deal to hand over islands
WEBUK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius; Pascalina Nellan, whose grandmother was born on a key island in the region - Diego Garcia, said the deal amounted to a "backstabbing" by ...
UK to hand over sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... - Sky News
WEB19 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 ...
Chagos Islands: Britain agrees sovereignty deal with Mauritius
WEB18 hours ago — Britain, which has controlled the region since 1814, detached the Chagos Islands in 1965 from Mauritius - a former colony that became independent three years later - to create the British Indian ...
Mauritius reaches sovereignty deal with Britain over Chagos Islands ...
WEB14 hours ago — The Chagos Islands — also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory — are a cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean. They include Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands and the site of the ...
UK agrees to give sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
WEB19 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 ...