One person has died and dozens were injured during a crush at an election rally for Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, officials say. Campaigning for July’s general election began on Saturday, with Mr Kagame holding two rallies in northern Rwanda over the weekend. The crush happened on Sunday in Rubavu district, where 37 people were injured, […]
Sir Keir Starmer has accused Rishi Sunak of never believing the Rwanda deportation plan would work after the British prime minister conceded flights would not take off before the UK general election. The British prime minister and Labour leader kicked off their campaigns on Thursday with Mr Sunak urging voters to back him at the […]
Fianna Fáil TD Jim O’Callaghan has expressed doubt that the UK’s ‘Rwanda Policy’ will ever become operational. Mr O’Callaghan was speaking on RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show, responding to a Belfast High Court ruling on Monday which found the policy cannot be used in Northern Ireland as it breaches human rights protections. “I […]
The UK government last week sent its first failed asylum seeker to Rwanda – the east African country Rishi Sunak says he wants to deport people to as a deterrent to those trying to cross the English Channel. Last month, the prime minister said the first plane of deportees will take off within 10-12 weeks […]
The Rwandan government won’t guarantee how many migrants it can take from the UK if flights start to depart. Rishi Sunak has promised that migrants arriving in the UK without permission will be sent to Rwanda rather than allowed to claim asylum in the UK. Around 52,000 have come to the UK since the law […]
The FDA trade union’s High Court challenge over the Government’s Safety of Rwanda Act will be heard in the first week of June, a judge has ruled. The trade union, which represents senior civil servants, previously said it was bringing legal action over the relationship of the Civil Service Code with the Government’s Safety of […]
The first migrants set to be deported to Rwanda have been detained. The Home Office said a series of operations took place across the country this week, with more activity due to be carried out in the coming weeks. Officials have not yet said how many people have been detained, or where they were taken […]
The UK has returned a first failed asylum seeker to Rwanda under a voluntary removals programme, it is understood. Under the scheme, announced last month, migrants whose claims are rejected are offered up to £3,000 to move to the east African country. It is separate to the forced returns scheme the government announced two years […]
A failed asylum seeker has been sent to Rwanda, under a voluntary scheme separate to the Government’s flagship deportation plan. The unnamed man is the first to have voluntarily moved to Rwanda after being offered up to £3,000 financial aid and sent on a commercial flight to the central African country. The voluntary return scheme […]
Thousands of asylum seekers earmarked by the UK Home Office for deportation to Rwanda have lost contact with the department, a British government document suggests. Out of 5,700 people identified for removal, 2,145 “continue to report to the Home Office and can be located for detention”, the impact assessment says. The document, updated on the […]
(Bloomberg) — Concerns that asylum seekers are relocating from the UK to the Republic of Ireland show that the British government’s plan for deportations to Rwanda is already acting as a deterrent to illegal immigration, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said. Most Read from Bloomberg In an interview with Sky’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips program, […]
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak said claims the UK government’s Rwanda plan is causing an influx of refugees into Ireland show its deterrent effect is working. “The deterrent is … already having an impact because people are worried about coming here,” Mr Sunak said. It comes after Tánaiste Micheál Martin said the UK policy is […]