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Reclaiming the Chagos Islands

Britain is facing an increasingly bitter tug-of-war with one of its former African colonies - Mauritius. The two countries are divided over the Chagos Islands, a former British colony in the Indian Ocean. They used to be part of Mauritius but were detached in 1965 and are now home to a US airbase. Mauritius will argue before the International Court of Justice that Britain should return the Chagos Islands. Andrew Harding reports.

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