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Rwanda migrants: Where has ‘offshoring’ been used for asylum seekers before?

An “offshoring” policy for asylum seekers is a first for the UK, but it has been done – against a backdrop of controversy – in other parts of the world

The Independent UK

Thursday briefing: UK may send asylum seekers to Rwanda

Government set to unveil new measures for refugee claimants … Johnson faces more Partygate fines … and Gibraltar’s trash mountain

The Guardian - AU

Rwanda to take asylum seekers from UK for processing under Government plans

Boris Johnson is set to argue that action is needed to combat the ‘vile people smugglers’ turning the ocean into a ‘watery graveyard’.

The Independent UK

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Outsourcing asylum seekers: the case of Rwanda and the UK

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on April 4 2022 that Britain would relocate some asylum seekers arriving in the UK to Rwanda. The plan was condemned by the opposition as well as human rights groups such as Amnesty International. The UK has settled on Rwanda after earlier reports that…

The Conversation

UK to send asylum seekers to Rwanda under controversial new deal

Critics slam plan as unethical and unworkable but PM Johnson says it will ‘save lives’ and disrupt people-smuggling.

Al Jazeera

UK to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing

Deal to outsource process, described by Labour as ‘unworkable and unethical’, among range of measures to be unveiled

The Guardian - UK

Asylum seekers expected to be flown to Rwanda for processing in Government plans

Boris Johnson is set to argue that action is needed to combat the ‘vile people smugglers’ turning the ocean into a ‘watery graveyard’.

The Independent UK

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Fury as Tories unveil 'cruel' plan to send asylum seekers to RWANDA - 5,000 miles away

Priti Patel will sign a deal with Rwanda after months of attempts to 'offshore' migrants in Albania and Ghana collapsed. Boris Johnson will boast he is 'taking back control of illegal immigration'

Daily Mirror

UK to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, Boris Johnson announces

Plan to ‘offshore’ people seeking refuge in Britain in African country more than 4,000 miles away condemned as ‘unworkable and nasty’

The Independent UK

Rights group says indigenous Batwa community attacked in DR Congo

In tonight's edition: Rangers and troops in DR Congo are accused of working with soldiers to terrorise and kill members of the indigenous Batwa community in a bid to drive them out of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park. Also, Rwanda marks 28 years since the start of the genocide of the…

France 24

Rwandans remember 1994 genocide with somber events

Rwandans have begun a solemn commemoration of the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu who tried to protect them were killed

The Independent UK

Refugees minister slams Boris Johnson’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing

‘I’m having difficulty enough getting them from Ukraine – there’s no possibility of sending them to Rwanda’

The Independent UK

East African Community expands with the recent addition of DRC

The East African Community’s (EAC) membership has grown to seven with the official admission of the Democratic Republic of Congo as a new member. The other members are Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan.

Radio France Internationale

‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero not slapped with life sentence: judge

A judge in Kigali has ruled that Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager credited with giving hundreds of people shelter during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, will only serve a 25-year sentence for terrorism, not a life sentence as the prosecution has demanded.

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Rwandan court maintains 'Hotel Rwanda' hero's 25-year sentence

A Rwandan appeals court on Monday kept the existing 25-year sentence for Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed in the movie "Hotel Rwanda" sheltering hundreds of people during the 1994 genocide, rejecting a bid to extend it to life in prison.

The Guardian - UK

The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga review – extraordinary tribute to motherhood

The author’s account of her early years in exile and her family’s massacre in the Rwandan genocide is a timely reminder of the horrors of war

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ex-ICC Prosecutor Urges Global Arrest Warrant for Putin

The former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has called for an international arrest warrant to be issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Putin is a war criminal,” Carla Del Ponte told the Swiss newspaper Le Temps in an interview published Saturday. In interviews given to Swiss media to…

The Guardian - UK

‘We feel safer’: how green energy is brightening refugee lives in Rwanda

Solar panels and cleaner-burning stoves have reduced dangers faced by residents of Rwandan camps

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M23 rebels attack military positions in eastern Congo

Heavy fighting erupted overnight in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo when fighters from the M23 rebel group attacked army positions near the border with Uganda and Rwanda, a local official and a witness said on Monday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Egypt, Rwanda Agree to Bolster Cooperation with Nile Basin Countries

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi held talks with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame at al-Ittihadiya Palace in Cairo on Sunday. The two leaders discussed bilateral ties and latest regional developments and agreed on the importance of engaging in constructive and effective dialogue to boost strategic cooperation with the Nile Basin…

The Conversation

DRC is set to become 7th member of the east Africa trading bloc: what's in it for everyone

Shortly after his controversial electoral victory in early 2019, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Felix Tshisekedi sought to get his country admitted into the East African Community. Recently, the East African Community ministers recommended the DRC’s admission, a decision set to be formalised by the bloc’s…

Al Jazeera

HRW: Rwanda silencing YouTubers with ‘abusive’ legal framework

Human Rights Watch said Rwanda’s ‘abusive legal framework’ is intensifying a culture of intolerance.

Al Jazeera

Museveni’s army general son meets Kagame to fix Rwanda relations

Sour relations between Uganda and Rwanda had led to a three-year border closure by Kigali, that ended in January.

The Independent UK

Charles and Camilla to represent the Queen at Commonwealth summit in Rwanda

The prince and the duchess will travel to Kigali in June, with Charles stressing the need for countries to come together amid the pandemic recovery.

The Conversation

Rwanda has reopened the border with Uganda but distrust could close it again

Rwanda has now fully reopened the Gatuna border with Uganda, ending a three-year impasse on the Northern Corridor, one of East Africa’s key transport arteries that funnels goods from the Indian Ocean seaport of Mombasa to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo. Rwanda abruptly closed the border in…

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