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The UK-Mauritius treaty on the Chagos Archipelago will transfer sovereignty of the islands back to Mauritius, while maintaining an initial 99-year lease on the joint UK/US military base on Diego ...
Dame Priti Patel asked whether ministers ‘are afraid’ of Labour backbenchers, who might ‘force them into another embarrassing U-turn’.
The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.
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, ...
Mauritius will face "very significant logistical challenges" to resettling the outer islands of the Chagos archipelago and it is "necessarily uncertain" that the Mauritian government will ever be ...
The Chagos Archipelago’s return to Mauritius marks the end of decades of diplomatic conflict between this island nation and ...
Mauritius's water supplies are running very low. As a small island, it is affected by tropical cyclones, rising temperatures, rising sea levels, and a warming ocean. Rainfall levels have decreased ...
Britain is ceding control of the archipelago to Mauritius, after the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on the UK’s territorial claim in 2019 saying it should do so.
The Defence Secretary was asked about the upsides of ‘giving away’ the Indian Ocean archipelago as he spoke at a conference in London.
The Defence Secretary was asked about the upsides of “giving away the Chagos Islands” as he spoke at the Royal United Services Institute’s (Rusi) land warfare conference in central London. Under the ...