Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Rwanda

Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa's age, career, net worth and family

Ncuti Gatwa, who was born in Rwanda, is a Scottish actor

Edinburgh Live

Priti Patel’s Rwanda plan for UK asylum seekers faces its first legal challenge

Home secretary is violating international law, the UN refugee convention and data protection rules, say lawyers

The Guardian - UK

Activists accuse Patel of ‘racist and inhumane’ Rwanda policy at dinner

The Home Secretary was speaking at the Bassetlaw Conservatives Spring Dinner on Friday.

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Activists disrupt Priti Patel speech in protest over ‘morally bankrupt’ Rwanda asylum plan

Campaigners from Green New Deal Rising branded Priti Patel’s Rwanda plan ‘inhumane’

The Independent UK

Protesters disrupt Priti Patel speech at Tory dinner over 'racist' Rwanda refugee plan

A group of activists demanded Priti Patel scrap the plan to ship refugees to Rwanda, branding it dangerous and racist

Daily Mirror

Activists interrupt Priti Patel speech to protest controversial Rwanda deal

The deal will see the UK pay £120million to Rwanda to take on asylum seekers

Evening Standard

Activists disrupt Priti Patel speech in protest against Rwanda refugee plan

Green New Deal Rising campaigners were escorted from the dinner to chants of ‘out, out, out’

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Rwanda: Tackling the challenge of overpopulation

Africa's demographic growth is having a considerable impact on the continent's capital cities. Kigali, for example, is set to double its population by 2050. In one of the most densely populated areas in the world, authorities are trying to organise this growth in terms of urban planning and economics. Rwanda,…

France 24

PM under fire over ‘attacks’ on lawyers contesting Rwanda migrant plan

Boris Johnson had claimed that the proposal could be scuppered by ‘liberal lawyers’.

The Independent UK

Priti Patel's plan to use RAF base to create 'migrant camp' blasted by angry locals

Home Secretary Priti Patel intends to use a mothballed RAF base in rural North Yorkshire to create the UK’s biggest-ever camp for people seeking sanctuary. The plans have been branded 'Guantanamo-on-Ouse'

Daily Mirror

If Johnson’s Rwanda plan for asylum seekers is legal, why is he afraid to defend it in court?

Refugees – and civil servants who’ll have to effect this cruel policy – will both suffer, says Mark Serwotka of the Public and Commercial Services Union

The Guardian - UK

Union chief accuses Patel of withholding Rwanda asylum details from staff

Mark Serwotka claims failure to disclose key documents raises suspicions plan is ‘built on sand’

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson’s ‘misleading and dangerous’ attack on lawyers over Rwanda deal condemned

Association warns of ‘real-life consequences’ after string over government attacks over asylum and migration

The Independent UK

PM: ‘Liberal lawyers’ will make Rwanda plan difficult but ‘we will get it done’

Boris Johnson said ‘we always knew’ that ‘liberal lawyers’ would have tried to make the plan difficult.

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Rwanda deportation plan ‘could easily unravel’ as Boris Johnson announces delay

Home Office source suggests ministers want legal action so they can ‘point frustration at the courts’

The Independent UK

‘Months’ before Rwanda flights begin as Channel crossings hit 7,000 for 2022

Downing Street was unable to confirm when the first flights sending migrants to the east African nation would begin.

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda already hit by delays

The Government wanted the first flights to Rwanda to begin at the end of May but Downing Street now says it could take 'months'

The Guardian - UK

Legal cases may explain why Rwanda plan is not working, suggests No 10

As Channel crossings pick up, asylum seekers seem undeterred by plan to deport people to east Africa

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson abandons hopes of sending first asylum-seekers to Rwanda within ‘weeks’

No 10 admits it will now be ‘months’ before any refugees crossing Channel are deported – potentially after peak summer season

Reuters

UK's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda may be delayed because of legal challenges

Britain's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda may take longer to introduce as the government faces legal challenges to a policy aimed at dealing with migrants crossing the Channel, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

English Channel: More than 7,000 people have made deadly crossing this year, figures show

Number of migrants that have arrived in the UK this year is over seven times more the amount in 2020, according to government data

Wales Online

Rwanda plan failing to deter migrants from crossing Channel

Refugee charities claim 254 people were detected in small boats from France on Sunday

The Independent UK

Asylum seekers in Calais not deterred from Channel crossings by UK’s Rwanda plans, poll finds

‘Answer to many problems in Calais is to let refugees apply for visas to cross the Channel safely,’ charity says

Evening Standard

At least ‘350 migrants cross Channel in two days’

At least 350 migrants are believed to have crossed the English Channel in the past two days.

Radio France Internationale

The family of 'Hotel Rwanda' hero files US law suit over his alleged abduction

The family of "Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul Rusesabagina announced at the weekend that they have filed a $400 million lawsuit in the United States over his alleged abduction and torture.

1 … 127 128 129 130

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Public and Commercial Services

41 stories

Green New Deal Rising

21 stories

Public and Commercial Services Union

15 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.