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The Latest Breaking News from the Chagos Islands

UK government seeks meeting with Trump team over Chagos Islands agreement

National security adviser will travel to Washington in attempt to persuade US president-elect not to rip up deal

The Guardian - UK

Trump’s team concerned Starmer will complete Chagos Islands deal before inauguration

Exclusive: The row deepens as Keir Starmer’s envoy flies into Mauritius today to hold talks with their prime minister about completing the Chagos Islands deal

The Independent UK

Republican senator falsely accuses Biden and Harris of masterminding Chagos deal to ‘appease’ UN and China

The Independent has reported that president-elect Donald Trump has expressed a desire to object to the handover of the Chagos Islands because it could jeopardize a key US military base

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‘Outright hostility’ to UK-Chagos deal in incoming Trump cabinet, says Farage

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

Evening Standard

UK will allay Trump concerns over Chagos Islands, says minister, as Priti Patel says Tories opposed to deal– as it happened

Stephen Doughty, foreign office minister, says if UK had not negotiated a deal with Mauritius, ‘a legally binding decision against UK seemed inevitable’

The Guardian - UK

Mauritius votes under shadow of wire-tapping scandal, Chagos deal

Mauritius votes on Sunday in a legislative election overshadowed by a wire-tapping scandal that has sparked concerns over the erosion of rights in the Indian Ocean nation. The poll follows last month's historic agreement granting Mauritius sovereignty over the Chagos Islands after a lengthy legal battle with Britain.

Radio France Internationale

Migrants stuck in the Chagos Islands could be offered chance to transfer to UK

In March this year, some of the migrants brought legal action against the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

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Revealed: Farage-inspired bid to persuade Trump to veto Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal

Exclusive: Donald Trump has received legal advice on Starmer’s decision to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius requested after Nigel Farage raised concerns about the deal directly with his team

The Independent UK

Nigel Farage: British High Commission ‘bugged’ by government of Mauritius

The Government announced its decision to relinquish sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius earlier this month.

Evening Standard

Fate of 60 Sri Lankans detained on Diego Garcia remains unresolved

Letter: A new agreement that any new migrants arriving at the Chagos Islands will be transferred to St Helena doesn’t cover this group, who have been there since 2021, writes Vince Thompson

The Guardian - UK

Deal struck to deport migrants arriving in the Chagos Islands to British island territory

The government of St Helena has been handed £6.65m to take migrants who arrive in the Chagos Islands

The Independent UK

Does Starmer believe in anything, people ask, and now we know: his credo is the rule of law

Rwanda, the Chagos Islands, arms to Israel – all fit a pattern. Look to the speech his attorney general made this week; all the clues are there, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

For Britain, Chagos is not the same as Gibraltar or the Falklands

Letters: Readers respond to Simon Jenkins’s call for Britain, having ceded the Chagos Islands, to abandon its imperial delusions

The Guardian - UK

Handover of Chagos Islands to Mauritius 'not an outright win'

The United Kingdom's recent decision to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former British colony, was a breakthrough, says Mauritian former foreign minister Jean-Claude de l'Estrac. But it isn't an unmitigated victory, he tells RFI, because the UK has been granted a long-term lease to maintain a military…

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Will the UK ‘give up’ Gibraltar next? In Spain, we’re more worried about Brexit’s absurdities

Ignore warnings of the Rock following the Chagos Islands – new border checks are more of a threat to livelihoods in the territory and beyond

Evening Standard

Chagos Islands: UK offers to move migrants stranded on secretive island to Romania

Government offers migrants on Diego Garcia - part of the Chagos Islands - move to Romania in long-running asylum claims

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Chagos Islanders Protest UK-Mauritius Deal Over Homeland Fate

Chagos Islanders protest UK's decision to hand over Chagos Islands to Mauritius, retaining US military base on Diego Garcia.

Radio France Internationale

Chagos Islands returned to Mauritius, but tensions over evictions persist

After decades of legal battles, Britain has agreed to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former colony. The remote Indian Ocean archipelago will continue to host a US military base, but Chagossians exiled to make way for the base in the 1960s and 70s are questioning whether the deal…

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The Guardian - UK

Britain needs to abandon its delusions of empire – giving up the Chagos Islands is a good start

Labour says it is committed to other ‘overseas territories’, but why? These colonial-era dreams are costing the country dear, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Suddenly, all MPs know where the Chagos Islands are and what’s best for them

Many who last week couldn’t have got within 500 miles of Mauritius on a map now can’t bear it taking the archipelago

The Guardian - UK

Lammy defends Chagos deal, saying it saves important UK-US military base

Foreign secretary says status quo not sustainable as Tory MPs accuse Labour of giving away key asset

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson says ‘terrible’ Chagos Islands deal makes UK look ‘pathetic’

The former prime minister said the deal, which saw Britain hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, is a ‘terrible, terrible idea geo-strategically’

International Business Times

Chagos Diaspora Angry At Lack Of Input On Islands' Fate

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean archipelago of its inhabitants to make way for a strategic military base.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Britain ceding the Chagos Islands: a welcome step towards justice

Editorial: Transferring sovereignty to Mauritius paves the way for some to return, but islanders need a voice, reparations and rights in the UK

The Guardian - UK

Returning the Chagos Islands has righted a longstanding injustice

Letters: A truly successful country can never rise in the future if it remains shackled by injustices from the past, writes former British high commissioner to Mauritius Jonathan Drew

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