On the Indian Ocean’s Chagos Islands, the Mauritian flag was hoisted for the first time.
On the Island of Peros Banhos, the Mauritian ambassador to the United Nations presided over a ceremony in which a pre-recorded message from the Mauritian prime minister was broadcast over a loudspeaker.
On the Island of Salomon, a new flag was raised. The islands are under British authority, but Mauritius claims them.
The flag-raising marked the end of a Mauritian government-organized trip that included a group of Chagossians who had been exiled from the islands by the British authorities 50 years earlier.
BBC