The Latest Breaking News from Rwanda

Thirty years ago, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a predominantly Tutsi armed group, took over Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city – and soon after, the country’s governance. This victory occurred amid a horrific genocide masterminded by a Hutu-dominated regime. Rwanda’s main ethnic groups are the Hutu, who make up a majority of…

Yvette Cooper said the new body, set to include MI5, would tackle the root cause of the small boats crisis ‘going after these dangerous criminals and bringing them to justice’

Starmer introduces a more informal approach to his premiership and announces Rwanda scheme has already been scrapped

Previous Conservative government’s policy was ‘never a deterrent’, new PM says, calling it ‘dead and buried’.

Press conference follows first Cabinet meeting since Labour stormed to power in Thursday’s election

A two-week humanitarian truce between Kinshasa and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels began on Friday in the Democratic Republic of Congo's war-scarred east.

Union for civil servants claimed Home Office staff could be open to prosecution if Strasbourg rulings on Rwanda ignored

Keir Starmer faces Nato summit in Washington and is expected to scrap Rwanda deportation scheme

As Sir Keir Starmer becomes the UK’s newly elected prime minister, here are some of the steps he could take early in his term

One of the few things Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer have agreed on in this election campaign is that the UK’s borders are “out of control”.

Costs of trying to deport asylum seekers cannot be recovered if Labour wins and disbands policy