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U.K. returns 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 evicted, while maintaining a key U.S.-British military base there.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution · 4d

UK gives sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The US base on Diego Garcia stays

It will also create a “resettlement” fund for displaced Chagossians aimed at letting them move back to the islands other than Diego Garcia. The Chagos Islands, which conjure up images of ...

Newsweek · 4d

Diego Garcia: What 'Historic' UK Deal Means for US's Indian Ocean Base

Diego Garcia, the largest in the Chagos group in ... said Mauritius was now "free to rent" the Chagos Islands to countries including China, potentially offering Beijing "a military foothold ...

THE WEEK5d

UK cedes Chagos Islands to Mauritius, minus US base

Britain said Thursday it would cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 small islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius but retain control of Diego Garcia ...

News-Press NOW6d

UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal to secure US base

LONDON (AP) — The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos ... of the base at Diego Garcia, the largest in the chain of remote islands off the tip ...