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A campaigner representing the Chagossian community has urged MPs to pause a disputed sovereignty agreement with Mauritius, warning the Government is pushing it through too quickly without proper ...
The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.
A legal challenge demanding the UK Government consult Chagossians before transferring sovereignty of their homeland has ...
First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...
Mauritius is ‘likely’ to resume its campaign to secure a judgment on sovereignty against Britain unless the agreement is rubber-stamped, ...
Some Mauritian Chagossians, such as the activist Olivier Bancoult, came out in favour of the deal. But the 3,500 in Crawley are, according to their MP Peter Lamb, near-universally opposed.
The Chagos Archipelago’s return to Mauritius marks the end of decades of diplomatic conflict between this island nation and ...
Chagossians, backed by allies in Mauritius and beyond, are continuing their struggle for the right to return to Diego Garcia, for the reconstruction of Chagossian society in Chagos, and for full ...
While the victories the Chagossians, a group numbering less than 8,000, finally achieved last month are anything but perfect, they wouldn’t have happened without a more than half-century-long struggle ...
The panel, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, said it was "gravely concerned about the lack of meaningful participation of Chagossians in the processes that have led to the agreement". Philippe ...