Pressure Grows on Britain to Return Its Last African Colony

  • International pressure builds on U.K. to return Chagos Islands
  • U.S. has military base on Diego Garcia in Chagos archipelago

Diego Garcia

Photographer: USGS/NASA Landsat data

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From a one-story house with mustard-colored walls off a bustling road in Mauritius, Olivier Bancoult is defying the U.K. by plotting a return to the tiny tropical island where he was born.