UK gives sovereignty of long-contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius, though a key US base remains
The British government agreed to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to secure the future of a strategically important U.
After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...
The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...
The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that an agreement has been reached to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ...
The Republic of Mauritius will regain sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, a group of remote but strategically important ...
In February 2019, the International Court of Justice, also the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, handed Mauritius a victory when it concluded in an advisory opinion that the British ...
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