UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius - BBC News
WEBOct 3, 2024 · 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 deal to hand over Chagos Islands criticised over lack of say for ...
WEBOct 3, 2024 · 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 ... - Associated Press News
WEBOct 3, 2024 · The British government agreed to hand sovereignty of the 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.
Why is the UK handing the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius?
WEB4 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 ...
Chagos Islands: UK’s last African colony returned to Mauritius
WEBOct 3, 2024 · 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.
U.K. to Hand Over Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Ending Colonial …
WEBOct 3, 2024 · 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 gives sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The ... - ABC News
WEBOct 3, 2024 · 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 …
Mauritius Agrees Deal With UK on Chagos Archipelago
WEBOct 3, 2024 · Britain struck a deal allowing it to keeping control of a strategically important UK-US military base in the Indian Ocean for another century, while ceding sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to...
UK and Mauritius joint statement, 3 October 2024 - GOV.UK
WEB3 October 2024. Joint statement between the governments of the Republic of Mauritius and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego ...
United Kingdom reaches deal to cede Chagos Archipelago to …
WEBOct. 3 (UPI) -- The United Kingdom says it has reached a "historic" deal to cede the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to the Republic of Mauritius, thus surrendering the final colony of ...