‘Illegal colonial occupier’: Mauritius blasts UK as it skips UN deadline to return Chagos Islands housing US airbase ...News

The UK missed a UN deadline to vacate its Indian Ocean islands, the largest of which hosts an American airbase, garnering some strong words from its former colony Mauritius, which sold them to London for £3m back in the day. Pravind Jugnauth, the Prime Minister of Mauritius, has branded the United Kingdom an “illegal colonial occupier” after the six-month deadline to surrender control over the Chagos Islands passed on Friday. In May, the UN General Assembly voted by an overwhelming majority (116-to-6) for a resolution demanding that the islands be handed over to Mauritius. Earlier, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) made history

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