The Chagos Islands are a collection of 60 islands that lie 500km south of the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean. They were claimed by Mauritius, after the country gained independence in 1968.
Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of a remote Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius ... for decades to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former colony, but has ...
UK agrees to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius LONDON -- UK agrees to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the Indian ...
(AP Photo/Mike Corder, File) LONDON (AFP) — Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but under what President Joe Biden called a "historic agreement" ...
The British government has been under pressure for decades to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former colony, but has resisted because of the military base on Diego Garcia island that ...