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Refugees and activists from Rwanda and the DRC say the deal could have serious implications for the wider region.

We don’t yet know whether today’s flight to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, will take off with even one passenger on board. But the policy of sending asylum seekers 4,000 miles away to central Africa raises difficult questions for all of us.

Home Office plan to deport migrants to Rwanda continues to face legal objections on eve of first flight

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says the first deportation flight to Rwanda will take off Tuesday evening, regardless of how many people are on board, as immigration attorneys launch case-by-case appeals on behalf of the migrants scheduled for removal. The comments came a day after two British courts refused to…

After ministers vowed the flight would go ahead, Boris Johnson's official spokesman said he couldn't be 'definitive' about the flight - which was set to cost hundreds of thousands and have only a few asylum seekers on board

Survivors of torture and trafficking must be able to present their case in a fair and lawful way. That simply isn’t happening, says Kerry Smith, CEO of Asylum Aid

Wales' First Minister said the flight carrying people who had sought refugee in the UK to Rwanda was "a dark day for the UK"

Migrants were removed from the plane on Tuesday evening after intervention from the European Court of Human Rights

The UK's controversial Rwanda deportation plan was due to start today with the first flight leaving for the east African country with around eight asylum seekers onboard