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Refugees and activists from Rwanda and the DRC say the deal could have serious implications for the wider region.

We don’t yet know whether today’s flight to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, will take off with even one passenger on board. But the policy of sending asylum seekers 4,000 miles away to central Africa raises difficult questions for all of us.

Will the Rwanda asylum seekers deportation go ahead? How much will the flight cost? And how many people will be on the flight? We answer the key questions about the 'immoral' scheme

The widely condemned deportation flight to Rwanda is set to take off from Britain on Tuesday

The UK’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has inspired fresh waves of racist and bigoted language on social media

The Rwanda asylum plan has been heavily criticised by campaigners

Home Office plan to deport migrants to Rwanda continues to face legal objections on eve of first flight

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says the first deportation flight to Rwanda will take off Tuesday evening, regardless of how many people are on board, as immigration attorneys launch case-by-case appeals on behalf of the migrants scheduled for removal. The comments came a day after two British courts refused to…

After ministers vowed the flight would go ahead, Boris Johnson's official spokesman said he couldn't be 'definitive' about the flight - which was set to cost hundreds of thousands and have only a few asylum seekers on board

Survivors of torture and trafficking must be able to present their case in a fair and lawful way. That simply isn’t happening, says Kerry Smith, CEO of Asylum Aid

Wales' First Minister said the flight carrying people who had sought refugee in the UK to Rwanda was "a dark day for the UK"