ICJ urges UK to abandon its last colony in Africa
“It is now time for the sun to set on the last British colony in Africa,” Mauritian prime minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth said this week. Mauritius and the AU have hailed the recent ruling of the International Court of Justice that the decolonisation of Mauritius was not lawfully completed by Britain at independence in 1968 and that the UK has a legal obligation to restore the Chagos Islands to Mauritius as soon as possible.
The ICJ found that the dismemberment of Mauritius in 1965, the retention of the Chagos archipelago as a UK colony, and the forcible removal of the Chagossians violated international law. The court ruled that the UK is under a legal duty to restore the islands to Mauritius “as rapidly as possible”.
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