UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius - BBC News
WEB3 days ago · Mauritius 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 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 gives sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The US …
WEB3 days ago · The Chagos Islands, which conjure up images of paradise with their lush vegetation and long stretches of white sandy beaches, have been at the heart of what Britain has called the British Indian Ocean Territory since 1965 when they were siphoned away from Mauritius, a former U.K. colony that gained independence three years later.
U.K. to Hand Over Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Ending Colonial …
WEB3 days ago · In the 1960s, Britain granted Mauritius independence but carved out the Chagos Islands and evicted more than 1,000 inhabitants whose ancestors were taken there by the French as slaves from Africa ...
UK cedes Chagos Island sovereignty to Mauritius, retains Diego …
WEB3 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 ...
Chagos Islands: UK’s last African colony returned to Mauritius
WEB3 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 …
Britain agrees Chagos Island sovereignty deal with Mauritius
WEB3 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 ...
UK to hand over sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... - Sky News
WEB3 days ago · The Chagos Islands had been home to the Chagossians from the 1700s, brought as slaves from Africa and India by the French. The islands had been a dependency of Mauritius when it was a French ...
Britain has agreed to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
WEBThe 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 …
UK agrees to give sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
WEB3 days ago · The joint statement issued by the UK and Mauritius on Thursday stated that Mauritius “will now be free to implement a programme of resettlement on the islands of the Chagos Archipelago, other ...