U.K. deal will likely draw attention to France, another European sovereign state with contested territories in the Indian Ocean region like Tromelin Island.

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For a tiny group of atolls comprising just over 20 square miles of land in the Indian Ocean, the Chagos Islands have a long ...

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The UK Government announced its decision to relinquish sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius last month.

Mauritius was holding a parliamentary election on Sunday, with Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth and his main rivals all ...

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The Chagos Islands have been in British hands for more than 200 years, but after Mauritius gained independence from France in the late 1960s, the inhabitants of the islands were forcibly expelled ...

In 2019 the International Court of Justice and the United Nations General Assembly both told Britain to give up control of the islands, which it held on to after Mauritius gained independence in 1968.