Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

UK hands Chagos Islands to Mauritius, marking the end of a longstanding sovereignty dispute

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par James Brocklesby, Lecturer in History, Sheffield Hallam University

The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius. The final treaty outlining the transfer of the Chagos Islands, where there is a significant US military base, is expected to be announced in the coming months.

Negotiations for this transfer began in 2022 under the UK’s then foreign…

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