UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius - BBC News
WEB2 days ago · 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 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 deal to hand over Chagos Islands criticised over lack of say for ...
WEB1 day ago · People with roots in the Chagos Islands have criticised what they called their "exclusion" from negotiations leading to the UK government's deal to give up its sovereignty of the region. The ...
UK cedes Chagos Island sovereignty to Mauritius, retains Diego …
WEB2 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 ...
UK gives sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ... - Associated Press News
WEB2 days ago · LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government said Thursday it agreed 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 that secures the future of a strategically important U.K.-U.S. military base there. British Foreign …
Chagos Islands: UK’s last African colony returned to Mauritius
WEB1 day 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 to hand over sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... - Sky News
WEB2 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 ...
U.K. to Hand Over Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Ending Colonial …
WEB2 days ago · Oct. 3, 2024, 6:54 a.m. ET. 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 ...
Chagos Islands: Britain agrees sovereignty deal with Mauritius
WEB2 days ago · U.S. Navy/Reuters. Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people displaced decades ago to return home while London ...
Chagos Islands: Crawley Chagossians' concerns as UK hands over …
WEBChagossians' concerns as UK hands over islands. People from the Chagos Islands have been voicing their concerns over news the UK is giving up sovereignty and handing over the land to Mauritius ...