By AFP Burundi said on Thursday it had closed the border with Rwanda, nearly two weeks after accusing its neighbour of supporting rebels who carried out attacks on its soil. Burundi says the RED-Tabara group staged an attack on December 22 near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo […]
By AFP UK lawmakers on Tuesday voted in favour of the government’s latest plans to send migrants to Rwanda, which has split Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s ruling Conservative party. A knife-edge parliamentary vote after an afternoon of debate saw 313 MPs vote for the so-called Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and […]
By AFP A Rwandan doctor went on trial in France on Tuesday on charges of committing genocide and crimes against humanity during Rwanda’s 1994 massacres, after a three-decade investigation by French authorities. Sixty-eight-year-old Sosthene Munyemana appeared before the Assize Court in the French capital nearly 30 years after a complaint […]
By Catherine Ageno The United Nations (UN) Special Envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes region, has appealed to the international community for increased support in resolving the escalating hostilities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the mounting tension in the wider Great Lakes region. Speaking before the Security Council, on Tuesday, Huang […]
By AFP The UK government on Monday insisted that Rwanda is an appropriate place to deport failed asylum seekers, as it tried to overturn a court ruling that the policy is unlawful. Three appeal court judges in London blocked the controversial plan in June, assessing that the African nation could […]
