Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...
The joint UK-Mauritius announcement on October 3, with regards to the Chagos Archipelago reverting to Mauritian sovereignty, ...
In a joint statement with Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth, Keir Starmer said that Mauritius will take control of the islands, ...
The Chagos Islands, a tropical archipelago just south of the equator ... says that without the deal the status of the military base would be under threat from legal challenges.
In the late 1960s, the inhabitants of the remote Chagos Islands were forcibly moved to make way for a military base. Now London wants to hand over the archipelago to Mauritius. Those displaced at ...
Chagossians were not allowed to return to their homes. Diego Garcia, the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago, was leased out to the US for a military base (Britain and the US will continue to ...
LONDON (AP) — Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military ... The Chagos Islands, a tropical archipelago just south of the equator off ...
Except for the US military base on Diego Garcia at the southern ... The announcement of an agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago might end years of dispute between the ...
The United Kingdom agreed last week to return the Chagos Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to the African ...
After decades of legal battles, Britain has agreed to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former colony. The remote Indian Ocean archipelago will continue to host a US military base ...