UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius - BBC
WEBUK 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 hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius - BBC News
WEB1 day 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 ...
Chagos Islands: UK’s last African colony returned to Mauritius
WEB15 hours ago · Before granting independence to Mauritius in 1968, Britain was found to have unlawfully separated it to form a new colony on the Chagos archipelago named the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). The UK had initially dismissed UN rulings and court judgements demanding it return the islands to Mauritius, …
Where are the Chagos Islands? - ABC (Australian Broadcasting …
WEB6 hours ago · The Chagos Islands, also known as the Chagos Archipelago and the British Indian Ocean Territory, is an isolated atoll of tiny islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, between Africa and Western ...
U.K. to Hand Over Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Ending Colonial …
WEB1 day 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 ...
Britain agrees Chagos Island sovereignty deal with Mauritius
WEB1 day ago · Britain, which has controlled the region since 1814, detached the Chagos Islands in 1965 from Mauritius - a former colony that became independent three years later - to create the British Indian ...
Mauritius reaches sovereignty deal with Britain over Chagos …
WEB20 hours ago · The Chagos Islands — also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory — are a cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean. They include Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands and the site of the ...
UK agrees to give sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
WEB1 day ago · Fuel tanks at the edge of a military airstrip on Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major US military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean leased from the ...
UK gives sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ... - The Washington …
WEB1 day ago · By Associated Press. October 3, 2024 at 6:42 a.m. EDT. LONDON — The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian ...
UK hands Chagos Islands back to Mauritius - The Telegraph
WEB1 day ago · The islands have been signed away after 200 years of British rule. Sir Keir Starmer has given up the Chagos Islands, handing the Indian Ocean territory to Mauritius. The islands were British-owned ...