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    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      ‘Hotel Rwanda’ film hero granted presidential pardon

      Paul Rusesabagina, who saved hundreds of Tutsis during the genocide, was serving a 25-year sentence

    • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
      DR Congo
      DRC says Rwandan mineral smuggling costs it almost $1bn a year

      Kinshasa has long accused Kigali of plundering its resources by supporting insurgent M23 group

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      ReviewFiction
      All Your Children, Scattered — three generations remember Rwanda’s genocide

      The first novel from poet and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse explores the trauma of 1994’s mass killings

    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
      UK immigration
      UK plan to relocate asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful, court rules

      Rights groups consider appealing judgment after efforts to have policy ruled illegal fail

    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
      The badgers are coming. There goes the neighbourhood.

      While those in the country treat them like pests, townies are dangerously soft on our new neighbours. But are there limits to the urban welcome?

    • Monday, 5 September, 2022
      UK immigration
      UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda risks human rights, court told

      Claimants say policy violates right to freedom from inhumane treatment, but government denies risk of harm

    • Wednesday, 17 August, 2022
      UK immigration
      UK government wins partial victory in Rwanda documents court case

      Ministers sought to withhold references to Kigali’s alleged use of ‘torture and killings’ from legal review of immigration policy

    • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
      UK immigration
      Ministers ask court to keep sections of Rwanda rights document secret

      Application made to withhold materials referring to Kigali’s alleged use of ‘torture and killings’ from immigration policy hearing

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      DR Congo
      DR Congo criticises Rwanda after report claims its troops are backing rebels

      Kigali has previously denied backing M23 fighters in the east of the neighbouring country

    • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
      UK immigration
      Record numbers of migrants cross English Channel despite new penalties

      Almost 700 people made journey on Monday in face of recent legislation aimed at reducing attempts

    • Sunday, 17 July, 2022
      UK immigration
      UK plan for asylum seekers is not deterring boat crossings, say MPs

      Cross-party committee questions effectiveness of scheme to send migrants to Rwanda

    • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
      InterviewDR Congo
      Congo’s president Félix Tshisekedi warns of risk of war with Rwanda

      DRC leader tells the FT he will not stand by as armed militia linked to Kigali steps up attacks in resource-rich east

    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Johnson prepares to defend plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

      Prime minister due to meet Prince Charles at Commonwealth heads of government summit

    • Friday, 17 June, 2022
      UK immigration
      The refugees caught up in the UK’s Rwanda deportation plans

      People seeking asylum often have no legal route to the country, UNHCR says

    • Friday, 17 June, 2022
      Person in the News
      Paul Kagame, a man ready to make himself useful to the west

      Rwanda’s president claims to have overseen an economic miracle, but critics question his human rights record

    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      Law
      UK plans to prevent Strasbourg court from Rwanda-style interventions

      Measures in proposed Bill of Rights would not recognise ECHR injunctions as binding after late-night ruling grounded flight

    • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
      UK immigration
      Patel pledges to push ahead with Rwanda deportation plan

      Government refuses to rule out quitting human rights convention after court grounds first flight

    • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
      ExplainerUK politics & policy
      How the UK’s Rwanda deportation plans were grounded

      Move by Strasbourg court could put Boris Johnson’s showpiece policy on hold until at least July

    • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
      UK immigration
      UK plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda grounded by legal challenges

      Rulings by European human rights court and UK appeal judge stymie Johnson government’s efforts

    • Monday, 13 June, 2022
      UK immigration
      UK Court of Appeal refuses to block Rwanda flights

      First deportation can go ahead on Tuesday after judges dismiss call to block controversial policy

    • Sunday, 12 June, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      UK pushes ahead with plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda

      Move comes despite legal challenges and report that Prince Charles thinks policy is ‘appalling’

    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      UK judge refuses injunction against Rwanda deportation flights

      Claimants granted permission to appeal ahead of departure of first aircraft carrying asylum seekers

    • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
      Africa’s most wanted man confirmed dead by UN

      Remains of Rwandan genocide fugitive found in Zimbabwean graveyard

    • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
      UK immigration
      UK to provide long-term finance to Rwanda to resettle asylum seekers

      Home Office minister defends African country’s suitability as a place to which refugees can be relocated

    • Monday, 9 May, 2022
      UK immigration
      UK plan to deport refugees to Rwanda faces legal challenges

      Home Office under fresh fire over transparency and legality of new migration policy

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