Agaléga airstrip inagurated: Mauritius, Maldives, and India

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Earlier this week, the first team of Indian “technical personnel” reached the Maldives to take charge of one of the three aviation platforms stationed in the country. They will replace Indian military personnel whose first batch is required to leave the islands by March 10. On Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth of Mauritius jointly inaugurated an airstrip and a jetty that India has built on Agaléga, a two-island Mauritian dependency 1,100 km to the north of Port Louis and 2,500 km southwest of Malé. As Indian Ocean outposts, Mauritius and the Maldives have great strategic...