UK agrees to give sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
The United Kingdom has announced it is giving up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that will secure the future of a key US military base on the atoll of Diego Garcia while allowing islanders displaced for the past five decades a right of return.
Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull reports from Crawley.
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