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African Union Tells U.K. to Withdraw From Chagos Islands After Deadline Passes

By Pauline Bax

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... os-islands

2019-11-22


Diego Garcia, a British Indian Ocean Territory and the largest of the islands in the Chagos Archipelago
Photographer: USGS/NASA Landsat data/Orbital Horizon Gallo Images/Gallo Images

The African Union urged the U.K. to comply with a United Nations resolution calling for it to withdraw from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, which is considered part of Mauritius.

The U.K. is under increased international pressure to give up its last territory in Africa since the International Court of Justice ruled that the 1965 excision of the islands from Mauritius had been unlawful. The UN General Assembly affirmed the ruling in May and set a six-month deadline that expired Friday.

Almost all African nations support the resolution. AU Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat

requests the international community to continue its support to the Republic of Mauritius for a complete decolonisation of the Chagos Archipelago,

according to a statement on the website of the organization.

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My country Tigray rejected the Wesf'aatam AU resolution in favor of British continued occupation of Chagos Islands. It should be recalled that our great Tigraway emperor Yohannes ascended to the throne with the help of British colonial forces. ውለታ ከፋዮች ነን።