U.K. to Return Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Ending Colonial-Era …
WEB20 hours 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: UK’s last African colony returned to Mauritius
WEB11 hours 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 hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius - BBC News
WEB21 hours ago · 3 October 2024, 10:58 BST. Updated 57 minutes ago. The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than ...
UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal to …
WEB20 hours ago · LONDON (AP) — The British government agreed Thursday 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. British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the agreement secures the ...
Britain agrees Chagos Island sovereignty deal with Mauritius
WEB21 hours 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 ...
UK to hand over sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... - Sky News
WEB21 hours ago · The UK will hand over sovereignty of the remote Chagos Islands to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute. The deal to transfer the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius includes the tropical atoll ...
Britain to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius ending years of …
WEB11 hours ago · The UK has agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending years of bitter dispute over Britain’s last African colony. The agreement will allow a right of return for Chagossians, who ...
Mauritius reaches sovereignty deal with Britain over Chagos Islands ...
WEB16 hours ago · October 3, 2024 at 11:23 a.m. EDT. LONDON — The British government on Thursday announced it would cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in an agreement that ends decades of ...
UK agrees to give sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
WEB21 hours ago · The joint statement issued by the UK and Mauritius on Thursday stated that Mauritius “will now be free to implement a programme of resettlement on the islands of the Chagos Archipelago, other ...
Starmer gives up British sovereignty of Chagos Islands ‘to boost …
WEB21 hours 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 ...