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Starmer urged to suspend deal handing Chagos Islands back to Mauritius after UN human rights warning
PRIME Minister Sir Keir Starmer faces calls to suspend his deal handing the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius after UN experts criticised its treatment of the Chagossian people.
Sir Keir Starmer defends the UK's £3.4bn Chagos islands deal after Kemi Badenoch says it is bad value for money.
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The Prime Minister last month signed an agreement to cede sovereignty of the stretegically-important Indian Ocean archipelago ...
UK should renegotiate Chagos Islands deal to allow islanders to return, UN argues - Chagossians were expelled from the ...
The real challenge facing the Mauritian government is how to turn a diplomatic triumph into sustainable economic development.
Britain’s government has acknowledged that its removal of islanders was wrong, and has granted many citizenship and set aside some funds to improve their lives. But it continues to bar Chagossians ...
The deal will transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands from the UK to Mauritius — though Britain will retain control of the largest of the chain of islands, Diego Garcia, which hosts a ...
Maxi Schoeman receives funding from the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Samuel Oyewole is affiliated with Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria. Daniela Marggraff does ...
The US had sought out the Chagos Islands as a military base during the Cold War. At the time, Diego Garcia was the only US base between the Mediterranean and the Philippines. Today, it is still ...
the UK will hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius but retain Diego Garcia under an “initial” 99-year lease in return for annual indexed-linked payments. Starmer and Mauritius Prime ...
LONDON/PORT LOUIS, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the future of the UK-U.S. Diego Garcia military ...
Diego Garcia has helped to launch two invasions ... In a 1966 memo, as Britain prepared to hand the Chagos Islands to the US, British civil servant Paul Gore-Booth wrote that the aim of the ...
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