Rwandan President Paul Kagame blamed the inaction of the international community for allowing the 1994 genocide to happen as the central African country marked 30 years since an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists. Rwanda has shown strong recovery and economic growth in the years since, but scars remain and there are questions […]
The diggers’ hoes scrape the brown soil, looking for, and often finding, human bone fragments. The women then wipe the bone pieces with their hands as others watch in solemn silence. The digging goes on, a scene that has become all too familiar in a verdant area of rural southern Rwanda, where the discovery in […]
Former President Clinton will lead a U.S. delegation to Rwanda this weekend to mark 30 years since a genocide ravaged the country, the White House announced Thursday. An ethnic conflict between Hutu and Tutsi people in the country escalated to genocide in early 1994, eventually resulting in the deaths of between 500,000 and 800,000 Tutsi […]
French President Emmanuel Macron says France and its allies “could have stopped” the 1994 Rwanda genocide and “lacked the will to do so”. Mr Macron’s office said in a statement that the French president will release a video on social media on Sunday as Rwanda commemorates the 30th anniversary of the genocide. French President Emmanuel […]
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says France and its allies “could have stopped” the 1994 Rwanda genocide and “lacked the will to do so.” Macron’s office said in a statement that the French president will release a video on social media on Sunday as Rwanda commemorates the 30th anniversary of the genocide. In […]
Controlling immigration is more important than “membership of a foreign court”, the UK prime minister has said in his strongest hint yet that he could back leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In an interview on Wednesday, Rishi Sunak defended his approach to tackling small boats crossing the Channel, but indicated he would […]
British prime minister Rishi Sunak has been urged to abandon his Rwanda scheme by a United Nations human rights watchdog. Mr Sunak hopes to get planes carrying asylum seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda in the air this spring, but the legislation is still held up in Parliament. The United Nations Human Rights Committee […]
Peers in the UK’s House of Lords have inflicted further heavy defeats against UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s proposed Rwanda asylum law as the Archbishop of Canterbury – a leading critic of the legislation – was told to “check his white privilege”. Peers backed by 278 votes to 189, majority 89, a move to overturn […]
The Archbishop of Canterbury and Tory former Cabinet ministers have helped inflict the heaviest defeats Rishi Sunak has suffered in the UK’s House of Lords over his proposed Rwanda asylum law. The string of government setbacks, most passed by unusually large margins of more than 100 votes, set the stage for a Westminster showdown over […]
The UK will pay at least £370m to Rwanda as part of its plan to relocate asylum seekers there, the government’s spending watchdog has revealed. Up to £150,000 will also be paid for each person sent to the east African country over a five-year period. Labour said the new figures in the report by the […]
Rishi Sunak said he was taken by surprise when he appeared to accept a £1,000 (€1,168) bet over the success of the UK government’s Rwanda asylum scheme. The British prime minister has been criticised over the “depraved” wager with broadcaster Piers Morgan. Mr Sunak denied the wager was a mistake but admitted he had been […]
The home secretary has said deportations under the UK’s agreement with Rwanda could be “quite low”, depending on other factors. James Cleverly told MPs the agreement with the east African nation was “only one part” of the government’s response to illegal migration. Returns deals with other countries could also have a “very significant impact” on […]