UK Returns Chagos Islands to Mauritius
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The Chagos Islands, an archipelago of 58 islands in the Indian ... Though small in land area, the island state claims a maritime zone spanning 2.3 million square km, roughly the same as the ...
Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.
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The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is ...
In the late 1960s, the inhabitants of the remote Chagos Islands were forcibly moved to make way for a military base. Now London wants to hand over the archipelago to Mauritius. Those displaced at ...
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