Summary European court stops first flight to Rwanda UK government confident it can overcome challenges London says it is preparing next flight Rwanda says remains fully committed to plan LONDON/KIGALI, June 15 (Reuters) – Britain is confident it can overcome legal challenges to its bid to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda following a last minute…
The Rwandan government said Wednesday it was “not discouraged” by the cancellation of a flight to deport migrants from the United Kingdom to Rwanda the day before because of legal challenges, and that it remained “committed” to the partnership. “We are not discouraged by these developments. Rwanda remains fully committed to working to make this…
At least seven people have been killed, four of them beheaded, in recent jihadist attacks in northeastern Mozambique, violence that is now affecting areas previously relatively untouched and causing massive new displacement. According to the UN and the NGO Save the Children on Tuesday, 10,000 people have fled their homes in the past week. The…
Uganda’s crackdown on ADF rebels in eastern DR Congo, a mission launched jointly with Kinshasa, was driven in part by a desire to protect Ugandan oil interests, researchers said on Monday. But the joint operation also “rankled” Rwanda and became a factor in the resurgence of another rebel group, the M23, which DR Congo says…
Rwanda will temporarily close day schools in Kigali for six days to ease congestion in the city during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled for the next week. “In order to ease traffic flow in the City of Kigali during CHOGM, and to avoid disruption to movement of day scholars and their teachers, the Ministry…
The SADC mission to Mozambique has recorded one death and six injuries in an attack on insurgents in Macomia. Extremists with links to IS claimed to have killed two soldiers in last week’s ambush. Almost 10 000 people were displaced last week due to the insurgency, an aid agency said. A soldier with the Southern…
LONDON, June 14 (Reuters) – A new Ghanaian government-owned development bank aims to lend $600 million to small businesses over the next one to two years, its chief executive said, to help meet demand for credit and contribute to growth in the inflation-wracked west African country. The World Bank, Germany’s development agency KfW, the European Investment Bank…
The first flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda will take off and people who are not removed on Tuesday will be on subsequent flights, Liz Truss has said. The foreign secretary said it would “establish the principle” and break people traffickers’ business models. Seven or eight people are due to be removed on Tuesday, after…
Three years after Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir was ousted in a popular uprising, former members of his National Congress Party (NCP) are being given influential posts by the military junta, raising fears that they are making a political comeback. A fragile transitional government was ended last year after Gen Abdel-Fattah Burhan carried out a coup…
M23 rebels seized the town of Bunagana in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday, whose army accused Rwanda of being behind the “invasion” of its territory. Bunagana, an important cross-border trading center between the DRC and Uganda, and very close to Rwanda, “is under enemy control,” a Congolese officer acknowledged earlier today…