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The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.
I have spent much of my life studying predatory fishes in East Africa’s coastal waters, but never have I been more concerned ...
First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...
Mauritius is ‘likely’ to resume its campaign to secure a judgment on sovereignty against Britain unless the agreement is rubber-stamped, ...
The Chagos Archipelago’s return to Mauritius marks the end of decades of diplomatic conflict between this island nation and ...
The Defence Secretary was asked about the upsides of ‘giving away’ the Indian Ocean archipelago as he spoke at a conference in London.
China has made only one public statement on Chagos Islands deal - Different claims have been made as to whether or not China supports the deal between the UK and Mauritius.
Negotiations to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius began under the previous ... that Chagossians would be allowed to settle on the outer islands of the archipelago, he told peers ...
A year later, on March 12, 1968, Mauritius gained freedom from the British and U.K paid a £3 million grant in recognition of the detachment of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and amongst ...
The U.K. recognized the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius’ claim to the Chagos Archipelago in an agreement signed May 22.. While Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam praised the deal, it ...
He added that it was "total recognition of our sovereignty on the Chagos, including Diego Garcia.” In 1965, the U.K. split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius, an island nation off the southeastern ...