Chagos Islands Location

U.K. returns sovereignty of Chagos Islands

U.K. returns sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius after long dispute

The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly evicted, while maintaining a key U.S.-British military base there.

The Economist · 5d

Britain has agreed to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius

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 Sri Lanka,

ABC News (AU) on MSN · 5d

Where are the Chagos Islands, why is Britain giving up sovereignty and what happens to the Diego Garcia military base?

After years of negotiations, the UK is giving up its sovereignty over a cluster of strategically important Indian Ocean islands. The move has led to criticism from Britain's Conservative opposition and some local Indigenous groups.

Al Jazeera on MSN5d

Why is the UK handing the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius?

An agreement between the UK and Mauritian governments could see thousands of exiled Chagossians resettled again.

Daily Mail6d

Inside the 'ghostly' Chagos Islands atoll so secretive that journalists are banned - and its links to major nuclear arms deal

After decades of wrangling over the fate of the Chagos Islands, and the key US-UK military ... but settled on Diego Garcia as the 'prime location' due to its strategic positioning in the middle ...

UK-Mauritius treaty on Chagos Archipelago, Diego Garcia: What it means, why it matters for India

For years, Mauritius demanded the UK end its control on the Chagos Archipelago. Why was their ownership a matter of ...

as.com6d

The secret US military base being given back to Mauritius

The United States is facing a significant geopolitical shift as the UK prepares to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands ... since the 1970s. The island’s location far from potential ...

London Evening Standard4d

The Standard View: Chagos Islands deal is a just and sensible outcome

The British Indian Ocean territory lies in a geopolitically strategic location, and is host to ... a motion urging the return of the Chagos islands by a wide margin. The International Court ...

The Daily Telegraph5d

Starmer refuses to rule out signing away Gibraltar and the Falklands

The location of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean meant that at any point of the day, at least part of Britain or its territories would be in daylight. When the islands are finally handed ...

Chagos Islands: What now for the UK's other overseas territories?

With the UK government handing sovereignty over the Mauritius on Thursday, what could this mean for the future of other ...

INSIDENOVA.COM4d

Chagos diaspora angry at lack of input on islands' fate

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...

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