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Exclusive: A group of indigenous Chagossians are planning to stage a protest over the decision to hand the archipelago over to Mauritius, The Independent understands, accusing the government of excluding them from talks

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Mauritius says the UK's handing over of the long-contested Chagos Islands draws an important line under the archipelago's colonial history. The remote Indian Ocean islands were Britain's last African colony. The UK severed the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 and up to 2,000 Chagossians were expelled to make way…

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Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of a remote Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius but will maintain there a strategic military base that it shares with the United States, in what US President Joe Biden described as a "historic agreement".

The UK agreed on Thursday to renounce sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, but agreed a deal with Mauritius to secure the future of a UK-US military base on the island of Diego Garcia.