LONDON — Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a disputed U.K. territory that is home to a major U.S. military base, the British government said ...
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A group of indigenous Chagossian people have instructed lawyers to challenge the controversial Chagos deal, in yet another blow to the government’s beleaguered agreement. It comes as the deal faces ...
The governments of Britain and Mauritius have been negotiating in recent months to complete an agreement to settle the future of the disputed Indian Ocean archipelago, which is home to a strategically ...
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Recently, a UK court stepped in at the last moment to pause a significant deal that would have transferred control of the Chagos Islands from the UK to Mauritius. The Chagos Islands, a remote ...
On Dec. 8, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination called on the United Kingdom and the Republic of Mauritius to suspend ratification of their agreement regarding Britain’s ...
Mauritius officials have said they will “spare no effort” in decolonising the Chagos Islands shortly after it emerged that the UK government had shelved plans to hand over the islands. Despite ...
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