Mapping

Mauritius has denied a report that its allowed Asian country to make a military base on the remote island of Agalega, with a government official telling AFP that no such agreement exists between the 2 nations

·        The small, remote Mauritian island of North Agalega, located in the south-western Indian Ocean, 1,122 kilometres north of Mauritius North Agalega Island is some 12 kilometres long and 1.5 kilometres wide, with a total population of less than 300 people.

·        There is an MoU between the governments of Mauritius and India to develop the Agaléga islands and resolve infrastructural problems faced by Agaleans.

·        The jetty and port facilities India is constructing. A port is being constructed at the north end of the island.

·        This development is a manifestation of Modi’s 2016 vision for the Indian Ocean, articulated as Security and Growth for All in the Region (SAGAR).

·        Under SAGAR, New Delhi aims to work together with Indian Ocean regional governments to “engineer virtuous cycles of cooperation”.

·        The Chagossian experience the people were forcibly removed from the Chagos Archipelago in the early 1970s to make way for the joint UK-US military base on Diego Garcia – sound alarms for ethnic Creole Agaléens and their supporters.

·        The 1965 call by kingdom to separate the Chagos Islands from Mauritius and found out a joint military base with the u. s. on Diego Garcia, the most important of the isles.

·        The decades-old move has sparked protests by Chagossians, United Nations agency accuse Associate in Nursingd Northern Ireland|kingdom} of winding up an “illegal occupation” and riddance them from their country of origin.

·        Britain insists the islands belong to London and has revived a lease agreement with the u. s. to use Diego Garcia till 2036.

·        Diego Garcia contend a strategic role throughout the conflict, so as associate airbase, together with throughout the war in Afghanistan.