UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius - BBC News
WEB15 hours ago · UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more ...
UK to hand over sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... - Sky News
WEB15 hours ago · The UK will hand over sovereignty of the remote Chagos Islands to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute. The deal to transfer the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius includes the tropical atoll ...
Chagossians' concerns as UK hands over islands - BBC
WEBChagossians' concerns as UK hands over islands. People from the Chagos Islands have been voicing their concerns over news the UK is giving up sovereignty and handing over the land to Mauritius ...
U.K. to Return Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Ending Colonial-Era …
WEB14 hours ago · Oct. 3, 2024, 6:54 a.m. ET. Britain said on Thursday that it would hand over the Chagos Islands, a necklace of tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, ending lengthy, sometimes ...
Chagos Islands: Britain agrees sovereignty deal with Mauritius
WEB14 hours ago · U.S. Navy/Reuters. Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people displaced decades ago to return home while London ...
UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal to …
WEB14 hours ago · LONDON (AP) — The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal that secures the future of a strategically important U.K.-U.S. military base. British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the agreement secures the ...
UK agrees to give sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
WEB15 hours ago · The UK, which has controlled the region since 1814, detached the Chagos Islands in 1965 from Mauritius – a former colony that became independent three years later – to create the British ...
Mauritius reaches sovereignty deal with Britain over Chagos Islands ...
WEB10 hours ago · October 3, 2024 at 11:23 a.m. EDT. LONDON — The British government on Thursday announced it would cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in an agreement that ends decades of ...
Starmer gives up British sovereignty of Chagos Islands ‘to boost …
WEB15 hours ago · The islands have been signed away after 200 years of British rule. Sir Keir Starmer has given up the Chagos Islands, handing the Indian Ocean territory to Mauritius. The islands were British-owned ...
UK hands over sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal
WEB14 hours ago · October 3, 2024, 3:42 AM. 1:13. LONDON -- The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in ...