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Earlier this week, 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 set of two islands in the western Indian Ocean, along with some other community development initiatives. The Mauritian dependency of Agaléga comprises two islands — the main North Island, and the smaller South Island, located 1,100 km north of Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, and 2,500 km southwest of Malé, the capital of Maldives. Over the last few years, there have been reports about purported Indian efforts to develop Agaléga as…
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