The Latest Breaking News from Rwanda

Seven people were originally scheduled to be on tonight’s flight to Rwanda

Britain expects the first flight of asylum seekers to depart for Rwanda on Tuesday and any person who avoids that flight due to legal proceedings will be put on a later one, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Tuesday.

Britain's first flight to take asylum seekers to Rwanda did not take off as scheduled on Tuesday after the European human rights court issued last-minute injunctions to stop the deportation of the handful of migrants on board.

Protester Lauren Chaplin called the controversial Government policy ‘violent and repressive’

M23 rebels have reportedly captured the eastern town of Bunagana on the Ugandan border. The violence has forced at least 30,000 people to flee the area. DR Congo's military blames Rwanda for the takeover. Also, the first flight deporting asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda is due to go…

Refugee charities say there may be just seven people on the aircraft as individual appeals continue.

The home secretary inexplicably declined the chance to update MPs on how well the refugee flights policy was going

Archbishop Justin Welby is among church leaders who say the government's immigration policy is "immoral". The news follows reports that Prince Charles believes the Rwanda deal is "appalling".

Asylum seekers from Sudan and Iraq share their worries about Home Office deportation plans