Chagos Islands
The UK evicted them in the early 1970s and allowed the USA to build a military base on. 1 day agoAn archipelago of seven atolls with some 60 islands in all Chagos misfortune is that it is in a strategically vital position in the centre of the Indian Ocean about 310 miles 500km south of the Maldives.
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A photo taken in 1971 shows residents of Diego Garcia receiving the news that the entire population of the Chagos Islands would be deported towards Mauritius and Seychelles to make way for a new.
. Chagos Islands once home to a native population known as Ilois or Chagossians lies in the Indian Ocean approximately 500 kilometers south of the Maldives. 1 day agoThe Chagos Islands have been at the centre of a decades-long dispute. Chagos islanders in emotional historic trip home.
Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding. All sounds very wonderful so far right. It consists of five atolls including The Great Chagos Bank - the largest atoll in the world.
Because many different forms of life call it home from the coral reefs to the various species that live on more than 55 islands. Britain evicted about 2000 residents in the 1960s and 70s so the US. Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth described it.
The Chagos Islands also known as the Chagos Archipelago formerly Bassas de Chagas is a group of 7 tropical atolls making up 60 tropical islands located in the Indian Ocean. Despite concerted opposition from both the UK and US Mauritius has won a string. Emotional moment as Mauritian flag raised on disputed British territory.
Military could build an air base on. 1 day agoMauritius measures reef hoping to lay claim on Chagos Islands. 15 hours agoUK firm on Chagos Islands claim after Mauritius plants flag.
The native population were deported by the British governement in the late sixties and early seventies to fulfill the terms of a leasing agreement to depopulate the islands initally a. 15 hours agoSeveral Chagos islanders accompanied Mauritian officials on a voyage that also involved a scientific survey of a nearby coral reef. Britain has reaffirmed its sovereignty over a remote Indian Ocean archipelago after Mauritius underlined its own territorial claim by.
13 hours agoOfficials planted the red blue yellow and green flag of Mauritius on the Peros Banhos atoll in the Chagos Islands whose residents were expelled by Britain half a century ago to make way for a U. In a phone call to the Guardian shortly after the flag was raised the Mauritian prime minister said. The Chagos Islands is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean situated some 500 km due south of the Maldives.
The government of Mauritius has accused Britain of crimes against humanity and urged it to bow to international law and surrender control of the disputed Chagos Islands ahead of a historic visit to the archipelago by a government-chartered boat. Mauritius has formally challenged Britains ownership of the Chagos archipelago after. 22 hours agoThe flag of Mauritius has been planted in the British colony of the Chagos islands in the boldest move yet by the Indian Ocean state to assert its claim over the disputed archipelagoA boat sent.
It is just 217 sq m 561 sq kms in area with more than half of the land being taken up by Diego Garcia the largest of the Chagos. A boat sent by the government of Mauritius has arrived in the disputed Chagos archipelago in. Chagos islanders in emotional historic trip home.
Sadly though they also were not only a former British colony but also occupied some prime Cold War real estate. Why is the Chagos Archipelago so important. 17 hours agoThe Mauritian flag has been raised for the first time on the Chagos Islands an Indian Ocean archipelago controlled by Britain but claimed by Mauritius.
15 hours agoChagos Islands. Officially part of the British Indian Ocean Territory the Chagos were home to the Chagossians for more than a century and a half. The Chagos Archipelago is made up of over 55 islands.
Between 1967 and 1973 the UK evicted the islands entire population to make way for a joint military base with the US which is still in place on. An undated file photo shows Diego Garcia the largest island in the Chagos archipelago. 2 days agoThe trip is the culmination of years of tug-of-war legal battles with Britain over ownership of the Chagos Islands.
This is a very. Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth was quoted as.
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