Without British oversight, experts fear fishing vessels will have free rein to harvest the region, damaging its pristine reef ...

The UK Government said it has reached a political agreement with Mauritius over the Chagos ... as the British Indian Ocean ...

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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 ...

In a major development, the UK government agreed to hand over the sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of nearly 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius as part of ...

Image Source : REUTERS UK has decided to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after years of contestations. London: The United Kingdom has agreed to hand over sovereignty of ...

a matching .io (Indian Ocean) country code domain in 1997 Fuel tanks at the edge of a miltary airstrip on Diego Garcia, largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major US military base ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been known as the British Indian Ocean Territory since being administratively ...

Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean. By Mark Landler Reporting from London Britain said on Thursday that it would hand over the Chagos Islands ...

all island countries of the Indian Ocean, including the Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles and Sri Lanka, jointly agree to maintain the Chagos archipelago’s fully protected status, in the interests ...

On October 3 the Government announced that it had reached a deal to recognise that “Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago”. The archipelago is in the Indian Ocean and contains a ...