{"id":20121,"date":"2022-08-30T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T10:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc"},"modified":"2022-08-30T12:30:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:30:52","slug":"mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius sends boat to contested Chagos Islands &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Mauritius has sent a scientific mission to the Chagos Islands. The official reason for this boat trip \u2013 the first to be organised by Mauritius \u2013 is to map the reefs around the archipelago.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mauritius sends boat to contested Chagos Islands - BBC\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9cGUdP2qVLw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\">Mauritius<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. Mauritius has sent a scientific mission to the Chagos Islands. The official reason for this boat trip \u2013 the first to be organised by Mauritius \u2013 is to map the reefs around the archipelago. For More News And Analysis About Mauritius Follow Africa-Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16,18],"tags":[233,245,1767,241],"class_list":["post-20121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","category-video","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mauritius","tag-chagos","tag-mauritius"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mauritius sends boat to contested Chagos Islands - BBC - Mauritius<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mauritius has sent a scientific mission to the Chagos Islands. The official reason for this boat trip \u2013 the first to be ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mauritius sends boat to contested Chagos Islands - BBC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mauritius has sent a scientific mission to the Chagos Islands. The official reason for this boat trip \u2013 the first to be ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mauritius\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-30T10:53:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-30T12:30:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_1-630e02c1b544d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"252\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mauritius sends boat to contested Chagos Islands &#8211; BBC\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-30T10:53:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-30T12:30:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc\"},\"wordCount\":58,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_1-630e02c1b544d.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mauritius\",\"Chagos\",\"Mauritius\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\",\"video\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc\",\"name\":\"Mauritius sends boat to contested Chagos Islands - BBC - Mauritius\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_1-630e02c1b544d.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-30T10:53:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-30T12:30:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Mauritius has sent a scientific mission to the Chagos Islands. The official reason for this boat trip \u2013 the first to be ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_1-630e02c1b544d.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_1-630e02c1b544d.jpg\",\"width\":450,\"height\":252,\"caption\":\"Mauritius sends boat to contested Chagos Islands - BBC\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Mauritius sends boat to contested Chagos Islands &#8211; BBC\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/\",\"name\":\"Mauritius\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Mauritius sends boat to contested Chagos Islands - BBC - Mauritius","description":"Mauritius has sent a scientific mission to the Chagos Islands. The official reason for this boat trip \u2013 the first to be ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Mauritius sends boat to contested Chagos Islands - BBC","og_description":"Mauritius has sent a scientific mission to the Chagos Islands. The official reason for this boat trip \u2013 the first to be ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc","og_site_name":"Mauritius","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-08-30T10:53:09+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-08-30T12:30:52+00:00","og_image":[{"width":450,"height":252,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_1-630e02c1b544d.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Mauritius sends boat to contested Chagos Islands &#8211; BBC","datePublished":"2022-08-30T10:53:09+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-30T12:30:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc"},"wordCount":58,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_1-630e02c1b544d.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Mauritius","Chagos","Mauritius"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","policy","twitter","video"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc","name":"Mauritius sends boat to contested Chagos Islands - BBC - Mauritius","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_1-630e02c1b544d.jpg","datePublished":"2022-08-30T10:53:09+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-30T12:30:52+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Mauritius has sent a scientific mission to the Chagos Islands. The official reason for this boat trip \u2013 the first to be ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_1-630e02c1b544d.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_1-630e02c1b544d.jpg","width":450,"height":252,"caption":"Mauritius sends boat to contested Chagos Islands - BBC"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-sends-boat-to-contested-chagos-islands-bbc#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Mauritius sends boat to contested Chagos Islands &#8211; BBC"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/","name":"Mauritius","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}