Chagos Islands: UK’s last African colony returned to Mauritius
WEB4 days 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 hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius - BBC News
WEB5 days ago · 3 October 2024. 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 –...
UK gives sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The US …
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 …
UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius - BBC
WEBMauritius will also be able to begin a programme of resettlement on the Chagos Islands, but not on Diego Garcia. There, the UK will ensure operation of the military base for "an initial period" of ...
UK cedes Chagos Island sovereignty to Mauritius, retains Diego …
WEB5 days 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 ...
U.K. to Hand Over Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Ending Colonial …
WEB5 days ago · 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 acrimonious negotiations that...
UK and Mauritius joint statement, 3 October 2024
WEB5 days ago · Mauritius will now be free to implement a programme of resettlement on the islands of the Chagos Archipelago, other than Diego Garcia, and the UK will capitalise a new trust fund, as well as...
Britain cedes disputed islands to Mauritius, securing key U ... - NBC News
WEB4 days ago · Britain said Thursday that 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 base, and which could also pave...
Britain has agreed to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
WEB3 days ago · The link between Mauritius and the Chagos islands is fairly flimsy; the two territories are 2,000km apart and share no pre-colonial history. They were governed together as a single colony only ...
Chagos Islands: Britain agrees sovereignty deal with Mauritius
WEB5 days 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 ...