Fears over future of Falklands after Chagos Islands deal dubbed ‘strategic disaster’
Concerns have been raised over the future of the Falkland Islands after the UK gave up control of a remote archipelago - a move which has since been dubbed a “strategic disaster”. The government on Thursday said it had reached a political agreement with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands following negotiations which began in 2022.
The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US ...
After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...
The British government struck a deal with Mauritius to hand over the cluster of 58 tiny islands in the Indian Ocean known as ...
After years of negotiations, the UK is giving up its sovereignty over a cluster of strategically important Indian Ocean ...
F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...
Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.
The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...
The President of the Republic of Mauritius, Prithvirajsing Roopun, said on Friday the island nation would hold a general ...
Since 1971, only Diego Garcia has been allowed inhabitants - US military employees - after the UK expelled the Chagossians at ...
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