
UK - Mauritius dispute over Chagos Islands
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The British government has been accused of threatening a close ally in an increasingly bitter diplomatic tug-of-war over the fate of a tiny, strategic archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The dispute with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands - home to the US military base on Diego Garcia * In Cameroon, hospital authorities in Buea, the regional capital of the South west region have called on the public to claim bodies of their loved ones to create space for others. It's claimed more and more corpses are being brought in by the soldiers as fighting intensifies and more are killed in their fight against Ambazonia separatists * Ugandan MP Robert Kyagulanyi - aka Bobi Wine and 32 others have been released on bail after being arrested two weeks ago in Arua
(Photo: Diego Garcia is the largest island within the Chagos archipelago. Credit: USGS/NASA Landsat data/Orbital Horizon Gallo Images/Gallo Images/Getty Images)
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