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The Latest Breaking News from Diego Garcia

UK Hands Indian Ocean Islands To Mauritius But Keeps Key US Military Base

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".

International Business Times

UK cedes Chagos Islands to Mauritius in deal securing Diego Garcia military base

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.

France 24

UK Agrees To Hand Over Chagos Islands To Mauritius

British government transfers Chagos Islands sovereignty to Mauritius, securing U.K.-U.S. military base on Diego Garcia. Agreement aims to strengthen global...

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Diego Garcia row: Truss and Cleverly blamed as Starmer ‘surrenders’ key airbase islands

Blame game takes in James Cleverly and Liz Truss as UK announces decision to hand archipelago back to Mauritius in deal to secure secretive Diego Garcia base

The Independent UK

UK agrees to give sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius

The deal includes the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, which is used by the United States as a military base.

Al Jazeera

Tony Blair’s former chief-of-staff Jonathan Powell made special envoy for Chagos Islands sovereignty talks

Key issue for the UK and the US is retaining the military base on the island of Diego Garcia

Evening Standard

Yvette Cooper under pressure to airlift Tamil asylum seekers to UK

Mass suicide attempt reported among ‘extremely vulnerable’ adults and children on British overseas territory

The Guardian - UK

US blocks UK from holding court hearing in British territory Diego Garcia

Authorities refused to grant access for judge and legal teams to visit island, where dozens of Tamil asylum seekers are stranded

The Guardian - UK

Purgatory in paradise: how a shipwreck off Diego Garcia led to three years of hell and horror

In 2021, 60 Tamils were fleeing Sri Lanka for Canada when their boat sprang a leak. They were taken to Diego Garcia by the British navy. Three years later, they remain there in desperate, dangerous limbo

The Guardian - UK

Migrant workers ‘fear for their safety’ after deaths on Diego Garcia

Workers for US defence contractor KBR concerned after colleagues die on island with no hospital-grade health facility

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Chagos Islanders fear loss of identity as birth certificates altered to remove disputed homeland

Birthplace and parents’ names are being removed from passports and birth certificates as Mauritius stakes claim to the island

The Guardian - UK

Court finds UK Children Act protections apply to children stranded in Diego Garcia

Supreme court of British Indian Ocean Territory rules in favour of Tamil asylum seekers on island

The Guardian - UK

Chagos islanders stunned as David Cameron rules out return

Statement from British foreign secretary comes just months after his predecessor confirmed resettlement was part of talks with Mauritius

The Guardian - UK

Family still wait for return of migrant worker’s body after unexplained death on UK-US military base

Relatives allege American contractor on island of Diego Garcia failed to get proper medical help for 33-year-old Saddam Ali

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The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss wanted to bring stranded Tamil asylum seekers to UK, documents show

Then foreign secretary said in 2022 there was a ‘credible threat of mass suicide’ from group stuck on Diego Garcia

The Guardian - UK

Tamil refugees on Diego Garcia win fight against forcible return to Sri Lanka

British territory’s commissioner withdraws decision after supreme court challenge

The Independent UK

Foreign office rejects Boris Johnson’s Chagos Islands handover fears

The former prime minister said Britain appeared to be ‘on the verge of a colossal mistake’ if it gives control of the islands to Mauritius.

The Guardian - UK

Britain grants Tamil asylum seekers rescued at sea ‘safe-country’ move

Two people, from group rescued by Royal Navy and held on Diego Garcia, made offer while receiving medical attention in Rwanda

The Conversation

Why Britain should immediately withdraw from Mauritius' Chagos Islands

Britain is on the cusp of decolonising Mauritius – again. The first attempt at decolonisation took place in 1968 but went unfulfilled when London kept hold of an island group that had long been regarded as Mauritian territory: the Chagos Archipelago.

The Guardian - UK

Tamil refugees on Chagos Islands fear deportation under Rwanda-type plan

UK government lawyers tell asylum seekers they can return to Sri Lanka or be removed to undisclosed country

The Guardian - UK

UK accused of putting Tamil refugees at risk in Indian Ocean

MoD personnel escorted refugees away from Diego Garcia in boat with no record of having radio or lifesaving equipment, lawyers say

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