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Displaced Chagos islanders fear they will never go home after a UK-Mauritius deal
Dugasse, 68, has spent most of her life in the Seychelles and the U.K., wondering what it would be like to set foot on the tropical island of Diego Garcia, part of the remote cluster of atolls in the middle of the Indian Ocean called the Chagos Islands.
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United Kingdom abandons its colony of the Chagos Islands, but maintains the Diego Garcia airbase, which gives the key to the Indian Ocean to the USAThe islands, named after a Spanish navigator, have a basically symbolic British presence. The United Kingdom hands over the ...
The UK has signed a 99-year agreement with Mauritius to retain operational control of the Diego Garcia base, a key UK-US ...
The Air Force has deployed F-15 fighter jets for a force protection mission on Diego Garcia, Pacific Air Forces confirmed ...
The U.S. Air Force has increased the number of F-15s sent to Diego Garcia to provide force protection, a U.S. defense ...
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The United Kingdom has officially transferred sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius but the UK retains control of the strategically vital US-UK military base on Diego Garcia through a 99-year ...
Armed forces minister Luke Pollard faced questions about the Government’s estimation of the full cost. Diego Garcia, the ...
The agreement would see Britain hand back the Indian Ocean archipelago to its former colony and pay to lease a key US-UK ...
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