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How Chagos Islanders are fighting to keep their culture alive in exile

When Olivier Bancoult, Liseby Elysé, Suzelle Baptiste, Rosemonde Bertin and Marcel Humbert set off on the Bleu de Nîmes for the Chagos archipelago in February 2022, it marked the first time exiled Chagos Islanders had returned without UK officials. On the surface, the expedition was both scientific (to survey Blenheim…

The Conversation

Dodo could soon be brought back to life after scientists extract DNA sample

The flightless bird was wiped out by 17th century sailors and the dogs they brought with them when Europeans discovered its native Mauritius

Daily Mirror

The First World Radio Day

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the first World Radio Day celebration. RFI English journalist Zeenat Hansrod will help us celebrate Independence Day in Mauritius, her home country, and there's The Sound Kitchen mailbag, with music composed and performed by listener Warie…

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I made it. Not only out of my addiction, but on to a plane with Alex

The first holiday together is always make-or-break but when Charlotte Cripps heads off to Mauritius with her man, she knows that, whatever happens, it can't be worse than being in rehab

The Independent UK

Jim Gavin joins legendary golf line-up raising money for charity in Mauritius

The former Blues boss is hoping to take home a grand prize of €29,860 to help DeterMND: Tackling Motor Neurone Disease

Irish Mirror

African states need a vision for relations with the Indo-Pacific

This year sees the 25th anniversary of the Indian Ocean Rim Association. Nine of the organisation’s member states are African, ranging from Somalia in the north west to South Africa in the south. It also includes islands, such as Mauritius, off the western seaboard. It brings together governments, business and…

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How the US and UK worked together to recolonise the Chagos Islands and evict Chagossians

On 15 February 2022 the Mauritian flag was raised on two Indian Ocean atolls, Peros Banos and Salomon, both belonging to the Chagos archipelago. This was the first time that Mauritius’ flag was raised in the Chagos Islands, even though there is clear evidence that these 60 islands form part…

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Chagos: a 50-year-old UK-US crime

'The object of the exercise is to get some rocks which will remain ours.... There will be no indigenous population except seagulls," wrote Sir Paul Gore-Booth, a senior official at the British Foreign Office, as the plan to expel the 2,000 Chagos Islanders from their homes was taking shape in…

Bangkok Post

Curious Kids: why is February shorter than every other month?

Why does February has the least number of days? Why does it not have 30 or 31 days like the rest of the eleven months? – Simi, aged 15, Mauritius

The Conversation

The macaque monkeys of Mauritius: an invasive alien species, and a major export for research

Macaque monkeys live as both captive and wild animals on the island of Mauritius. The wild population number is estimated at between 25,000 and 35,000 animals, it’s uncertain how many exist in captivity, but the figure is in the tens of thousands. The reason for a high captive number is…

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Chagos Islands: Mauritius's latest challenge to UK shows row over sovereignty will not go away

A superyacht hired by Mauritius recently set out to conduct a scientific survey of the Blenheim reef, 230km off the coast of Diego Garcia in the Chagos archipelago. A group of Chagossians accompanied the scientists in what has been hailed as an “historic” event by Mauritian prime minister Pravind Jugnauth.

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Mauritius asks Google to label Chagos Islands as part of its territory

Row breaks out over Google Maps definition as UK insists it still maintains sovereignty

The Guardian - UK

Chagossian exiles celebrate emotional return as UK tries to justify control

World sympathy and legal balance shifting to Mauritian claim to islands

The Guardian - UK

Devas Recovery Suit | Air India wins nod to appeal against seizure ruling in Canada

Earlier this month, a U.S. federal court stayed proceedings to identify Air India as an alter ego of India and to find its assets in the U.S. to facilitate recovery of compensation

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Britain's ownership of the Chagos islands has no basis, Mauritius is right to claim them

The decolonisation of Mauritius was never fully completed. This is because, in 1965, the British government put islands belonging to Mauritius into a new colonial jurisdiction, the British Indian Ocean Territory, which still exists today. It is long past time for this colonial-era wrongdoing to be made right, and for…

Daily Mirror

Chagossians fear being booted from UK 50 years after they were removed from own islands

Between 1968 to 1973 the UK deported islanders to make way for a US Air base and 3,000 settled in Crawley, West Sussex but now risk being deported because they were not born in the UK

Evening Standard

Finding a slice of paradise in Mauritius

In search of replenishment, Sarfraz Manzoor finds his sweet spot at this Indian Ocean paradise

The Independent UK

UK firm on Chagos Islands claim after Mauritius plants flag

Britain has reaffirmed its sovereignty over a remote Indian Ocean archipelago after Mauritius underlined its own territorial claim by planting a flag on the islands

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UK 'in no doubt' over Chagos Islands after Mauritius plants flag

The UK has had sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory since 1814

The Guardian - UK

Mauritius formally challenges Britain’s ownership of Chagos Islands

Mauritian ambassador to UN raises country’s flag above atoll of Peros Banhos

The Guardian - UK

Mauritius measures reef hoping to lay claim on Chagos Islands

Dispute over archipelago in Indian Ocean involves neighbouring Maldives and UK historical claim

The Guardian - UK

Exiled Chagos Islanders return without UK officials for first time

Fifty years since they were deported to Mauritius by the UK, Chagossians are still fighting for their homeland

The Guardian - UK

Exiled Chagos Islanders bask in return ‘as pilgrims to abandoned place’

Fifty years after the UK forcibly deported them, five Chagossians have visited the disputed archipelago with Mauritius’s help

The Guardian - UK

‘I will be free’: excitement grows as cruise ship nears Chagos Islands

Exiles intend to plant Mauritian flag on land UK claims as part of British Indian Ocean Territory

The Guardian - UK

Mauritius warns UK firm over ‘Nemo’ coins in Chagos Islands dispute

Surrey-based Pobjoy Mint accused of violating international law by producing fish-decorated currency

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