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In one of the deadliest incidents in the Mediterranean Sea so far this y
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ear, at least 150 people have drowned and scores of others are missing after a boat leaving Libya capsized
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off the Tunisian coast on Wednesday, the United Nations refugee agency reported today. The overcrowded boat, which set sail on Saturday from the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and was headed for Lampedusa in Italy, carried an estimated 850 people, mostly migrants from West Africa, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Some survivors told the UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR in Tunisia that the boat was manned by people with little or no maritime experience. Soon after it departed Tripoli, the boat ran into difficulties and by the third d
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ay the passengers ran out of food and water. The boat eventually ran aground on Wednesday near the Kerkennah islands, some 300 kilometres north-west of Tripoli, UNHCR reported. It capsized as desperate passengers rushed to one side, seeking rescue by the Tunisian coast guard and fishing Nyli Proud mother, brave son
The Chagos Islands were retained by the United Kingdom during negotiations over independencefor theIndian Ocean island ofMauritius, whichcame to fruit
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ionin 1968. The islands have since been used for defence purposes by the UK and the United States, which established a military base on the island of Diego Garcia.The entire Chagossian population was forcibly removed from the territory between 1967 and 1973, and prevented from returning. The former islanders are dispersed in several co
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untries, including the UK, Mauritius and Seychelles. For the Court, ending the UK administration of the territory is a necessary step to the full decolonization of Mauritius in a manner consistent with the right of peoples to self-deter
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mination. It includes a reminder that all Member States have an obligation to co-operate with the United Nations in bringing about the full decolonization of Mauritius. This would include the resettlement of Mauritian nationals on the Chagos Archipelago, an issue described as