The Latest Breaking News from Rwanda

Paul Rusesabagina is serving 25 years for 'terrorism offences', with his family saying he was kidnapped while on a flight from Dubai to Burundi and given an unfair trial

Editorial: Sending asylum seekers on a one-way journey does nothing to address the global refugee crisis

Plans have surprised many, have few precedents and have been condemned as cruel and unworkable

Dr James Smith says we should stop viewing refugees, who are desperate people, as a burden and calls for governments to cooperate to find solutions to solve the issue

Analysis: plan to send unauthorised migrants overseas is likely to be very difficult to defend in courts

The UK is planning to send some failed asylum seekers to Rwanda.

The UK government’s plans to send refugees to Rwanda have been described as a ‘human rights calamity’ by Amnesty International.

Migrants, including asylum seekers who enter through unauthorised methods, will be flown 4,000 miles to East Africa under Government plans.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the government’s plans to send “tens of thousands” of asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing at a speech in Kent, which has received widespread criticism from human rights groups and opposition political parties. Mr Johnson acknowledged such concerns in his address, and accepted that the…