Chagos Islands: Why are they important in Indian Ocean and what do India, UK want? EXPLAINED
Britain ceded control over the Chagos Archipelago after years of negotiations with Mauritius. India has maintained strong support for Mauritius over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands and played a quiet but important role in the negotiations with the UK.
Britain to hand contested Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius
LONDON: Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but under what President Joe Biden called a “historic agreement”, will keep a strategic Indian Ocean military base that is operated by the US.
The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US ...
Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.
Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has branded Labour's surrender of the Chagos Islands as "total nonsense". Britain is ...
British officials announced the Chagos Islands would be ceded to Mauritius, in exchange for retaining a joint US-UK military ...
The U.K. says it has reached a "historic" deal to cede the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to the Republic of ...
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