Daily Maverick on MSN9 分钟
The melancholy legacy of empire as the sun goes down on Britain’s last pink bits on the map
In 1924 Britain held sway over 400 million people in 58 countries across the globe, seven times larger than the Roman Empire ...
Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the ...
Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands? - The African island ...
The Economist6 天
Britain has agreed to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...
UK gives up British-owned islands housing secretive military base to Mauritius
The UK has agreed to relinquish sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius - ...
UK to hand over sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius after decades-long dispute
Since 1971, only Diego Garcia has been allowed inhabitants - US military employees - after the UK expelled the Chagossians at ...
Al Jazeera on MSN6 天
Why is the UK handing the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius?
An agreement between the UK and Mauritian governments could see thousands of exiled Chagossians resettled again.
UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius
The government of Mauritius has long argued that it was illegally forced to give the Chagos Islands away in return for its ...
The Independent6 天
A tiny ocean island is home to a restricted US-UK military base. The secret just got out
Our mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth. Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. A remote island in the Indian Ocean ...
U.K. to Hand Over Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Ending Colonial-Era Dispute
After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...
UK gives sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The US base on Diego Garcia stays
The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...
The Independent5 天
Fears over future of Falklands after Chagos Islands deal dubbed ‘strategic disaster’
In a move that has since been dubbed a “strategic disaster”, the government on Thursday said it had reached a political agreement to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius following ...