{"id":34392,"date":"2024-10-04T03:02:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T01:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2024\/10\/04\/chagos-islanders-hope-to-return-after-uk-cedes-last-african-colony\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T03:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T01:02:27","slug":"chagos-islanders-hope-to-return-after-uk-cedes-last-african-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2024\/10\/04\/chagos-islanders-hope-to-return-after-uk-cedes-last-african-colony\/","title":{"rendered":"Chagos islanders hope to return after UK cedes last African colony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Mauritius says the UK&rsquo;s handing over of the long-contested Chagos Islands draws an important line under the archipelago&rsquo;s colonial history. The remote Indian Ocean islands were Britain&rsquo;s last African colony. The UK severed the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 and up to 2,000 Chagossians were expelled to make way for a military base. Mauritius says it&rsquo;s high time the colonial bullying was addressed. Now some Chagos islanders want to return to their ancestral home.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauritius says the UK&rsquo;s handing over of the long-contested Chagos Islands draws an important line under the archipelago&rsquo;s colonial history. The remote Indian Ocean islands were Britain&rsquo;s last African colony. The UK severed the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 and up to 2,000 Chagossians were expelled to make way for a military base. Mauritius &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-34392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}