The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...
The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...
After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...
Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...
The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...
"Under the terms of this treaty the United Kingdom will agree that Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago, ...
The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...
The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...
The British government agreed to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian ...
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 ...
UK agrees to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius ...
The UK is giving up sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, including the strategic Diego Garcia base. This historic move ...