UK signs deal to hand over Chagos Islands to Mauritius
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The UK has signed a deal to hand over the Chagos ... deal is a "win-win" - affirming Mauritius’ sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, while maintaining the security ...
The British government has handed control of the strategically significant Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after the controversial move survived an eleventh-hour legal challenge and months of criticism on both sides of the Atlantic.
A British court halted the UK's plan to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. This move came before an impending agreement signing, due to concerns from displaced Chagossian residents.
A British court on Thursday paved the way for a government deal on returning the remote Chagos Islands to Mauritius, lifting a temporary ban which had forced an 11th-hour halt
securing itself a lease for the U.S.-UK Diego Garcia air base for the next century. The Chagos Archipelago is a group of six atolls with more than 600 individual islands in the Indian Ocean ...