UK Hands Indian Ocean Islands To Mauritius But Keeps Key US Military Base
Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of a remote Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius but will maintain there a strategic military base that it shares with the United States, in what US President Joe Biden described as a "historic agreement".
British officials announced the Chagos Islands would be ceded to Mauritius, in exchange for retaining a joint US-UK military ...
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A series of islands in the remote reaches of the Indian Ocean are at the centre of a “historic agreement”, which will see the United Kingdom cede control over one of the few remaining holdovers from ...
Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...
Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth on Friday thanked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for completing our ...
But there’s one island that’s far less travelled that its counterparts – and for good reason. If you head east, to the Bay of Bengal, you’ll find North Sentinel Island, which boasts the same clear ...
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