With the handover of the Chagos Islands, the UK cedes part of its colonial past in the Indian Ocean
The Republic of Mauritius had been claiming sovereignty over these islands for over 50 years. The agreement signed by Keir Starmer's government allows the UK to keep the military base it leases to the US army.
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Return of Chagos Islands brings an end to shameful colonial episode
The UK was ceded the territories by the French in 1814. Historically, the islands were administered as part of Britain’s Mauritius colony. But on November 8, 1965, the UK discreetly dismembered the island range from Mauritius, and folded it into a new colony, which it dubbed the British Indian Ocean Territory.
We might as well be governed by the National Union of Students. In pursuit of their juvenile, half-witted anti-colonialism, ...
The Prime Minister will require an Act of Parliament to sign over the strategically important Chagos Islands over to ...
Exclusive: A group of indigenous Chagossians are planning to stage a protest over the decision to hand the archipelago over ...
Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...
On the second day of the row over the Chagos Islands, Sir Keir Starmer has defended the government’s decision to hand over ...
UK envoy Jonathan Powell on Friday slammed critics of the Government’s Chagos Islands deal, saying the US was fully on board, ...
Labour's decision to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius was welcomed by Argentina's foreign minister Diana Mondino, who ...
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