The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to secure the future of a strategically important U.

Britain struck a deal allowing it to keeping control of a strategically important UK-US military base in the Indian Ocean for another century, while ceding sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

TheGuardian.com reported that after decades of hostility,The UK has agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. From the article: The agreement will allow a right of return for Chagossians, whom the UK expelled from their homes in the 1960s and 1970s,