The UK has asked for "strong protections" for a joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. Britain agreed last year to hand over the archipelago over to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute.

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Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Labour won't finalise a deal to cede sovereignty of ... end this long battle for the sovereignty of Mauritius over the Chagos Archipelago remains unshaken.' Labour made the shock announcement ...

Diego Garcia is the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean ... What I found on the secretive tropical island they don't want you to see Hundreds protest against Chagos ...