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Chagos islands: what the UK-Mauritius agreement means for displaced Chagossians

By Laura Jeffery, Professor of Anthropology of Migration, University of Edinburgh

After years of negotiations and legal pressure, the UK and the Republic of Mauritius have agreed that Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago.

The Chagos Archipelago is a group of seven coral atolls which comprise more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean. In 1965, as part of negotiations leading to Mauritian independence, the UK government excised the Chagos Archipelago…

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