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
WEB5 days ago · 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 after years of ...
Why is the UK handing the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius?
WEB4 days ago · 4 Oct 2024. After a dispute running for more than 50 years, the United Kingdom will finally hand back the Chagos Islands, an archipelago located in the Indian Ocean, to the southeast African ...
UK deal to hand over Chagos Islands criticised over lack of say for ...
WEB5 days 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 gives sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The ... - ABC News
WEB5 days ago · LONDON -- 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 …
UK gives sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ... - Associated Press News
WEB5 days 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 …
Chagos Islands: UK’s last African colony returned to Mauritius
WEB5 days ago · 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 calls for sovereignty were …
U.K. to Hand Over Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Ending Colonial …
WEB5 days ago · U.K. to Return 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...
UK to hand over sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... - Sky News
WEB5 days 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 agrees to give sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
WEB5 days ago · The United Kingdom has announced it is giving up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that will secure the future of a key US military base on the atoll of Diego Garcia while...