Concerns were also raised about political and media freedom, as well as the inability of the Rwandan courts to act independently of the government. Evidence from the United Nations' refugee agency - the UNHCR - cited Rwanda's 100% rate of rejecting claims from countries in conflict zones s...
Britain's controversial Rwanda policy could work, according to several Iraqi people smugglers who spoke exclusively to Sky News. The widely criticised strategy, introduced by the current Conservative government, has been the subject of numerous court cases and received widespread international b...
UK's controversial Rwanda policy close to being passed Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame pose for the media, ahead of their meeting inside 10 Downing Street in London, Britain April 9, 2024. [Photo/Agencies] The United Kingdom government's highly co...
The Rwanda asylum plan, announced by the UK government in April, is supposed to give asylum seekers who cross the Channel to the UK a one-way ticket to Rwanda to claim asylum there instead. The first flight due to take the asylum seekers to Rwanda was canceled earlier this week after a ...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer's new Labour government scrapped the controversial plan to fly thousands of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda in its first major policy announcement after winning a commanding election victory earlier this month. ...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Britain’s government said Sunday that it could start deporting asylum-seekers to Rwanda in the next few months — but only if U.K. courts rule …
She's agreed to an interview today to discuss the UKs policy of putting some asylum seekers on one way flights to Rwanda. The UK government says it's 'necessary to tackle organized crime and people traffickers'... Gillian, as she's asked me to call her, isn't so su...
The government has made deals in recent years with third-countries where refugees will be sent to claim asylum, most controversially with Rwanda. The policy has been widely criticized and embarrassingly for the government, legal challenges have led tozero people being sentto Rwanda so far, despite...
To date, the Rwanda policy has cost the British government £220 million ($274m), and that figure could rise to £600 million after the first 300 people have been sent to East Africa. That leaves Sunak open to criticism from both the left and the right, who can say not only th...
The U.K. Supreme Court will start hearing arguments over whether the British government’s contentious policy to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda is lawful.