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Rishi Sunak press conference
UK to offer migrants ‘thousands to move to Rwanda voluntarily’
Migrants who have been refused asylum will be offered thousands of pounds to move to Rwanda under a new “voluntary” scheme as the UK government faces an ongoing parliamentary battle over its stalled deportation plan.

Tue, 12 Mar, 2024

Prime Minister's Questions
Sunak’s Rwanda Bill passes third reading after Tory rebels back down
The Bill will now move to the House of Lords where it is expected to face serious opposition.

Wed, 17 Jan, 2024

Congo and rebel groups agree three-day ceasefire ahead of presidential vote
Congo and rebel groups agree three-day ceasefire ahead of presidential vote
Congo’s security forces and rebel groups have agreed on a 72-hour ceasefire to de-escalate tensions in the country’s eastern region near the border with Rwanda, the US has announced.

Tue, 12 Dec, 2023

Rishi Sunak press conference
Sunak defends new Rwanda plan as he battles to maintain authority
Rishi Sunak insisted his new plan to revive the stalled Rwanda asylum scheme “blocks every single reason that has ever been used to prevent flights”.

Thu, 07 Dec, 2023

Migrant Channel crossing incidents
UK immigration minister Robert Jenrick quits after new Rwanda legislation unveiled
Home Secretary James Cleverly confirmed that Robert Jenrick has left the government after the British prime minister shunned taking the more hardline option with his new emergency legislation

Wed, 06 Dec, 2023

Migrant Crisis
Supreme Court to rule on Rwanda asylum policy
The Supreme Court will deliver its judgment on whether Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda policy is lawful after Suella Braverman warned he has no credible back-up to “stop the boats”.

Wed, 15 Nov, 2023

Suspect in 1994 Rwanda genocide goes on trial in Paris
Suspect in 1994 Rwanda genocide goes on trial in Paris
A Rwandan doctor who has been living in France for decades goes on trial in Paris on Tuesday over his alleged role in the 1994 genocide in his home country.

Tue, 14 Nov, 2023

Migrant Crisis
Campaigners and asylum seekers win UK Court of Appeal challenge against Rwanda policy
Campaigners and asylum seekers have won a UK Court of Appeal challenge over the British government’s planned Rwanda deportation scheme.

Thu, 29 Jun, 2023

Paul Rusesabagina
Man who inspired movie Hotel Rwanda returns to US after being freed from jail
The man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda and was freed by Rwanda last week from a terrorism sentence has returned to the United States, where he will reunite with his family after being held for more than two years.

Wed, 29 Mar, 2023

Migrant Channel crossing incidents
British home secretary: ‘We will send migrants to Rwanda as soon as possible’
Suella Braverman insisted the plan was “humane and practical” that would make the route across the Channel “unviable”.

Mon, 19 Dec, 2022

Cabinet meeting
British home secretary ‘committed’ to Rwanda deportation plan after High Court win
British home secretary Suella Braverman has said she is “committed” to making the plan to send migrants to Rwanda work after the UK High Court ruled that the policy is lawful.

Mon, 19 Dec, 2022

Rwanda policy
Rwanda is ‘authoritarian state’, British High Court told as challenge over policy begins
Rwanda is an “authoritarian state” that “tortures and murders those it considers to be its opponents”, the British High Court has heard at the outset of a legal challenge against the UK government’s plan to deport some asylum seekers to the east ...

Mon, 05 Sep, 2022

Conservative leadership bid
UK's Rwanda migrant scheme will be extended, says Liz Truss
Tory leadership rival Rishi Sunak is also set to unveil his immigration plans in the days to come

Sat, 23 Jul, 2022

Migrant Channel crossing incidents
UK has already paid £120m for stalled Rwanda deal
Britain has already paid Rwanda £120 million to take migrants despite the deal being grounded by legal challenges.

Fri, 22 Jul, 2022

People smuggling
British government still plans to send migrants to Rwanda despite Johnson resignation
The British government will press on with plans to send migrants to Rwanda despite Boris Johnson announcing he will leave office.

Fri, 08 Jul, 2022

Priti Patel visit to Rwanda
UK to ask European Court of Human Rights to reconsider Rwanda flight decision
The UK will “imminently” ask the European Court of Human Rights to reconsider a measure that blocked some asylum seekers from being removed on the first planned Rwanda deportation flight, the High Court has been told.

Mon, 20 Jun, 2022

Migrant Crisis
What happens when the first migrants arrive in the Rwanda from the UK?
The first migrants to arrive in Rwanda under the UK’s radical new deal to curb Channel crossings will be offered the chance to rebuild their lives in the east African nation.

Tue, 14 Jun, 2022

Priti Patel visit to Rwanda
What are the plans to fly migrants seeking asylum in the UK to Rwanda?
The first flight of migrants from the UK to Rwanda is due next week as part of the British government’s new immigration policy. Here is a look at what is known about the plans.

Sat, 11 Jun, 2022

Migrant Channel crossing incidents
Priti Patel facing High Court challenges over Rwanda plan for asylum seekers
British Home Secretary Priti Patel is facing High Court challenges over controversial plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Wed, 27 Apr, 2022

France Rwanda Genocide
Commission clears France of complicity in Rwanda genocide
A commission that spent nearly two years uncovering France’s role in 1994’s Rwandan genocide concluded that the country reacted too slowly in appreciating the extent of the horror that left over 800,000 dead but cleared it of complicity in the ...

Fri, 26 Mar, 2021

Tommy Fleming releases new charity single featuring Rwandan locals
Tommy Fleming releases new charity single featuring Rwandan locals

Tommy Fleming has launched a charity single after making a 20,000km round-trip to record it.

Sun, 11 Nov, 2018

WATCH: Kerry farmer gives last cow to Rwandan family in act of kindness
WATCH: Kerry farmer gives last cow to Rwandan family in act of kindness

Tim Moynihan was delighted the impact his last cow had for the African family.

Mon, 15 Oct, 2018

How Rwanda brought its healthcare system back to life
How Rwanda brought its healthcare system back to life

90% of the people in the African nation have health insurance, and life expectancy has increased by 19 years since 2000, says Agnes Binagwaho

Tue, 14 Nov, 2017

Bóthar sends 1,000th cow to Rwandan farms
Bóthar sends 1,000th cow to Rwandan farms
Bóthar yesterday despatched its 1,000th cow to Rwandans widowed by the genocide in their country during the mid 1990s just three months after it sent the largest ever airlift of animals in the world to the small nation in south-central Africa, the agency launched its 2017 airlift programme as 25 in-calf Friesian heifers began a 7,000km journey to their new home.

Wed, 25 Jan, 2017

Watch: Dublin GAA football manager Jim Gavin leads airlift of 5,300 animals to impoverished families
Watch: Dublin GAA football manager Jim Gavin leads airlift of 5,300 animals to impoverished families

Jim Gavin swapped one high for another yesterday as he takes to the skies as a ‘groomsman’.

Tue, 11 Oct, 2016

Rwandan ex-mayors on trial in Paris for 1994 genocide
Rwandan ex-mayors on trial in Paris for 1994 genocide

Two former Rwandan mayors have gone on trial in Paris, for allegedly inciting and leading the mass killing of ethnic Tutsis, during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Wed, 11 May, 2016

VIDEO: Cows cared for in Irish prisons sent to Cork woman’s creamery in Africa
VIDEO: Cows cared for in Irish prisons sent to Cork woman’s creamery in Africa

A Cork woman from a family of sporting legends is overseeing the construction of a creamery in Africa, supplied by cows cared for by convicted Irish criminals.

Sat, 14 Nov, 2015

Rwanda remembers its ‘deep darkness’

Twenty years ago, it is said, one person died every 10 seconds over 100 days as genocide gripped Rwanda, says Hannah McNeish.

Fri, 04 Apr, 2014

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