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UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius (www.bbc.com)

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The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

How [not] nice.

Mauritius will also be able to begin a programme of resettlement on the Chagos Islands,

After 50 years of abandonment, they're going to have to rebuild everything from scratch. And Wikipedia notes that the islands are "All are low-lying atolls", so any buildings or infrastructure is going to be underwater sooner rather than later.

This is nothing but a PR move.