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Pfizer sets sights on elimination of blinding disease trachoma by 2030

Kigali (AFP) - Pfizer on Thursday said it would extend until 2030 a drug donation programme aimed at eliminating trachoma, an eye disease responsible for blinding or visually impairing nearly two million people worldwide.

AFP

Kigali summit tests Commonwealth's clout as awkward issues loom

Commonwealth leaders gather in Rwanda this week to discuss issues ranging from trade to health to climate change, a summit that will test the organisation's mettle at a time when its relevance is being questioned.

Reuters

Boris Johnson ‘unlikely’ to bring up Rwanda asylum policy with Charles, says No 10 – as it happened

PM due to meet Prince of Wales during his visit to Rwanda; voters go to polls in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton

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Factbox-Commonwealth nations meet in Rwanda - what you need to know

Heads of government from Commonwealth nations will meet in the Rwandan capital Kigali on Friday and Saturday to discuss cooperation on topics ranging from green energy to rising food prices to the war in Ukraine, among others.

Reuters

International: Canada to open embassy in Rwanda for first time

Canada will open an embassy in Rwanda for the first time in both countries’ diplomatic history, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly announced in a press conference from Kigali. Read more on Dynamite News:

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PM hits out at ‘condescending’ opponents of Rwanda asylum seekers scheme

The Prime Minister defended the faltering flagship policy as he prepared to fly to Kigali.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson to head to Rwanda – but won't address his deportation policy

BORIS Johnson is to head to Rwanda – but he will avoid facing up to his Government’s much-criticised policy on deporting asylum seekers to the…

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If it’s not the asylum seeker policy, why is Boris Johnson in Rwanda?

The Prime Minister will meet with the Prince of Wales after Charles was reported as branding the relocation scheme ‘appalling’.

The Independent UK

PM will meet Charles in Rwanda after Prince 'privately criticised migrant scheme'

The Prince of Wales will represent the Queen when prime ministers gather in Kigali next week for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting

Daily Mirror

Rwanda is a brutal, repressive regime. Holding the Commonwealth summit there is a sham

Uniting heads of government in Kigali exposes a gaping hole in the association’s values, says author Michela Wrong

The Guardian - UK

Charles and Camilla arrive in Rwanda as Commonwealth heads meet

Charles will represent the Queen at the global summit of prime ministers and presidents in Kigali.

The Independent UK

East Africa leaders agree regional force to quell DR Congo crisis

The decision comes as fighting escalates in DRC’s northeast, with Kinshasa claiming Rwanda is backing the M23 rebels.

Al Jazeera

The US academic, the hero of the genocide, and the fake plot to topple Rwanda’s president

A 2013 meeting at an LA hotel was not a scheme to depose Paul Kagame but an intricate but abortive FBI sting.

The Guardian - US

East Africa leaders to meet Monday to discuss DR Congo conflict

Nairobi (AFP) - The leaders of seven nations comprising the East African Community bloc will meet Monday to discuss the security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo's violence-torn east, the Kenyan presidency said.

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Daily Mirror

Prince Charles fears Rwanda visit will be 'awkward' after he 'slammed migrant policy'

The Prince of Wales will represent the Queen during a Commonwealth meeting in Kigali, but sources say he is anxious his message will be drowned out after it was reported he called Priti Patel's policy "appalling"

The Conversation

Why Commonwealth summit in Kigali won't be the relaunch some were hoping for

Leaders of some 54 countries – from Africa, Europe, Asia and Southern America – are set to converge on Kigali between 20 June and 25 June 2022 for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Philip Murphy, a professor of Commonwealth history examines the expectations and limitations of the Kigali conference.

France 24

Linguistic shift to English leads Rwanda to host its first Commonwealth summit

Rwanda is gearing up host the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting from June 20-25 in the capital Kigali. The East African country, which has dropped French in favour of English in schools, wants to use the summit to promote its tourism and hospitality sector. But NGOs that are highly…

The Guardian - UK

‘Frankly insulting’: Rwanda resents its portrayal in UK asylum row

Kigali government seeks to shift narrative with managed tours of processing facilities and accommodation for deportees

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Rwanda's transnational repression under the spotlight, as UK deportation blocked by EU court

A last minute intervention by the European Court of Human Rights blocked the British government from sending a plane carrying failed asylum seekers to Rwanda. Amid the contraversial migrant deal signed between London and Kigali, a recent report published by the Washington-based think-tank Freedom House, has called out Rwanda as…

The Guardian - UK

‘Tens of thousands’ to a cancelled flight: how No 10’s Rwanda plan began to fall apart

A timeline of Home Office’s plans to send asylum seekers to Kigali – and what may happen next

Radio France Internationale

UK forced to cancel deportation flight to Rwanda after European court ruling

A first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a controversial UK policy was cancelled on Tuesday in an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government.

AFP

UK Rwanda asylum-seeker flight cancelled after European court ruling

London (AFP) - A first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a controversial UK policy was cancelled on Tuesday, in an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government.

AFP

UK vows to send migrants to Rwanda despite last-minute legal challenges

London (AFP) - The UK government on Tuesday insisted it would go ahead with its controversial policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, even as last-minute legal appeals meant there was a chance the first such flight might not take off.

Nottingham Post

Exactly what awaits UK migrants in Rwanda as first flight due to depart

While their immigration status is determined, migrants will take part in an “orientation” programme

The Independent UK

What happens when the first migrants arrive in the Rwanda from the UK?

The government aspires to provide ‘clean, modern accommodation’ with basic facilities and a safe space.

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