Britain struck a deal to cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius, while keeping control of a strategically important UK-US military base for another century.Under the agreement,

British Foreign Minister David Lammy said the deal settled the contested sovereignty of Britain’s last overseas territory in Africa, while securing the long-term future of the Diego Garcia military base,

The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly evicted, while maintaining a key U.S.-British military base there.