The Latest Breaking News from Rwanda

Asylum Aid makes legal application to stop flights in challenge to Priti Patel’s offshoring policy

The Home Office has refused to confirm the nationalities of those on board but only Rwandans are exempt from the policy.

AN SNP MP has skewered the Rwandan asylum seekers scheme as a Government attempt to “virtue signal” to a “heartless and xenophobic” group…

Depuis mars 2022, les combats se sont intensifiés dans l'est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) entre l'armée et le groupe rebelle Mouvement du 23 mars, plus connu sous le nom de M23. Ce dernier aurait attaqué des positions de l'armée près de la frontière avec l'Ouganda et le…

More than 500 Rwandan troops crossed the border, claims the DRC

The armed forces of Democratic Republic of Congo have accused Rwanda of sending 500 special forces in disguise into Congolese territory, the latest accusation in an escalating dispute between the neighbours.

It comes as the number of migrants to have crossed the Channel to the UK so far this year passed the 10,000 mark

Human rights activists called Wednesday on the British Home Secretary to halt next week’s planned deportation to Rwanda of an Iranian former police commander, saying they fear for his life following his testimony to the International People’s Tribunal on Iran’s atrocities during the November 2019 protests. Justice for Iran, an…

CAMPAIGNERS have formally launched their court bid to stop the Government’s controversial plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Officials who have a concern or issue with the Rwanda scheme should consider the trauma colleagues endure as they scoop babies out of Channel waters, after making unsuccessful crossings, an insider told the Mirror.

More than 80 years later, Henry still remembers how difficult it was to be a child refugee. Here’s what he thinks of the UK’s plan to send asylum seekers – some of whom could be unaccompanied minors – 4,500 miles away, writes Chitra Ramaswamy