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Rwanda

  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    UK immigration
    Last UK government spent more than £700mn on Rwanda scheme, Cooper says

    Home secretary criticises ‘shocking waste’ of money as she sets out plan to increase border security

    Yvette Cooper speaks in the House of Commons
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    TotalEnergies
    Total hands security contract for $20bn Mozambique gas project to Rwandan state-linked business

    Kigali pursues commercial expansion in the country after its army helps put down Islamist insurgency

    A satellite view of the Total Mozambique LNG project under construction in Afungi
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    Paul Kagame cements hold on Rwanda after election walkover

    Strongman president secures overwhelming victory after rival candidates were prevented from running

    Rwandan President Paul Kagame casting his vote
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Airlines
    RwandAir says Qatar Airways closing in on acquiring stake

    Carriers have been working on a deal expected to boost capacity in fast-growing market

    A Rwandair plane at the Kanombe, Kigali International Airport in Kigali
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Sunak suffers series of setbacks on first day of UK election campaign

    Prime minister cannot introduce signature policies on asylum and smoking before July 4

    Rishi Sunak speaking at the start of a six week election campaign on Thursday
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    News in-depthDR Congo
    Congo’s ‘forgotten’ war becomes a fight for survival

    Battle for city of Goma pits government forces and allied militia against Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group

    Congolese soldiers with guns
  • Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
    UK immigration
    UK Home Office detains asylum seekers destined for Rwanda

    ‘Large-scale’ operation in anticipation of first removals to Kigali comes as civil service union seeks judicial review

    Undated handout photo issued by the Home Office of immigration officers carrying out a detention visit
  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    UK immigration
    UK-Ireland migration dispute deepens as Dublin says it expects London to honour deal

    Irish justice minister says she will push ahead despite Rishi Sunak insisting Britain will not take back asylum seekers

    Helen McEntee
  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    UK immigration
    Over half of UK asylum seekers assigned for removal to Rwanda cannot be located

    Official data shows surging number of migrants falling into homelessness

    RNLI staff help migrants to disembark from a lifeboat in Kent after they were picked up at sea while attempting to cross the English Channel
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Britain’s egregious Rwanda asylum bill

    Plan to remove some small boat migrants to Africa is costly, flawed and sets a bad precedent

    A group of migrants on board an inflatable boat in northern France
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    ExplainerUK immigration
    What next for Sunak’s plans to fly UK asylum seekers to Rwanda?

    Removals are now likely to go ahead but the possibility of a clash with the European Court of Human Rights remains

    Rishi Sunak, with the Rwandan flag
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    Inside Politics
    How Sunak’s Rwanda gamble fits into his election bid

    Some Tory insiders favour going to the country early, fearing party disunity could worsen after May polls

    Prime minister Rishi Sunak and deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    UK immigration
    Sunak gets Rwanda bill through parliament

    House of Lords abandons efforts to amend legislation to underpin prime minister’s contentious removals plan

    Rishi Sunak at a press conference in London
  • Sunday, 21 April, 2024
    UK immigration
    ‘It’s not Barbieland’: Rwanda prepares to host asylum seekers sent from UK

    As Britain’s parliamentary ‘ping pong’ nears completion, critics warn migrants will not find the ‘good life they are looking for’

    Hope Hostel in Kigali, where migrants from the UK are expected to be taken after they arrive in Rwanda
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    UK immigration
    House of Lords insists on further changes to Sunak’s Rwanda bill

    New amendments by peers dash government hopes of asylum legislation becoming law this week

    Migrants crossing the English Channel on a small boat
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    The ECHR needs saving from itself

    Rulings on climate and migration offer Europe’s populists a rallying cry against the court’s legitimacy

    Illustration of big jagged cracks on the path leading up to the European Court of Human Rights building
  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
    UK immigration
    Rwandan state airline rejected UK proposal to fly asylum seekers to Kigali

    RwandAir was concerned about reputational risk associated with British government’s contentious scheme

    A RwandAir aircraft
  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The lessons and legacy of Rwanda’s genocide

    Thirty years on, the new regime has forged a stable state but at a cost — and international justice is still seeking ways to punish and protect

    A young man in red on a bicycle riding past marshland in an African landscape
  • Friday, 29 March, 2024
    UK immigration
    Home Office sends ‘third country’ removal notices to dozens of British asylum seekers

    Covering letter sent to migrants previously targeted with removal to Rwanda creates impression they would not be sent to African nation

    A demonstrator holds a placard while protesting against the government’s policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    UK immigration
    House of Lords inflicts fresh defeats on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda bill

    Legislation to send asylum seekers to African country delayed until after parliament’s Easter break

    People hold an inflatable boat before boarding to attempt crossing the Channel to Britain
  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Rwanda scheme: Sunak clings to false hope

    Big events can trigger change in public perception, but this scheme still appears niche to many voters

    Rishi Sunak
  • Monday, 18 March, 2024
    UK immigration
    MPs reject proposed changes to Sunak’s Rwanda asylum bill

    Government uses majority in Commons to remove peers’ amendments to legislation

    Migrants on a Border Force vessel in Dover, England, in October 2023
  • Monday, 18 March, 2024
    UK immigration
    True cost of UK sending migrants to Rwanda could be billions of pounds, says think-tank

    Price of Rishi Sunak’s plan might be up to £230,000 per person, IPPR analysis shows

    Migrants on a small boat
  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
    UK immigration
    Failed UK asylum claimants to be offered £3,000 to move to Rwanda

    New agreement signed with Kigali aims to remove migrants who cannot be returned to their home countries

    Migrants crossing the English Channel on a small boat
  • Monday, 4 March, 2024
    UK immigration
    Sunak’s Rwanda asylum bill suffers defeats in House of Lords

    Peers back amendments aimed at ensuring legislation complies with domestic and international law

    Protester with a sign outside the High Corut in London
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