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Rwanda

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Convoy — a survivor relives Rwanda’s genocide

    Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s harrowing memoir on escaping the atrocity is also a broader meditation on memory

    A procession of people walking down a country road in Africa carrying their possessions in bags and sacks, many of them on their heads
  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2025
    UK foreign policy
    UK suspends aid to Rwanda over eastern DR Congo conflict

    Keir Starmer’s government warns of further sanctions unless Kigali withdraws troops from its east African neighbour

    A Rwandan national police officer observes M23 rebel troops arrive at the Rusizi border post joining the Congolese city of Bukavu with Cyangugu in Rwanda, on February 16 2025
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    DR Congo urges NBA to cut Rwanda ties

    President Paul Kagame’s government has made sport a key focus of its international soft power campaign

    The Visit Rwanda logo on the sleeve of a match shirt in the Arsenal dressing room prior to a Uefa Champions League match
  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
    News in-depth
    The strongman reshaping central Africa

    A Rwandan-backed campaign in DR Congo exposes how Paul Kagame turned his genocide-scarred country into a belligerent military force

    Paul Kagame
  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Rwanda’s stealth occupation of eastern Congo

    Pressure on Kigali is needed to avert a potential full-blown conflict

    Members of the M23 armed group ride in a pick-up truck during a patrol in Goma
  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    DR Congo
    South Africa warns Rwanda of ‘declaration of war’ after assault in DRC

    Regional tensions spiral as SA peacekeepers are killed after Kigali-backed M23 rebel group launches Congo offensive

    M23 rebels patrol in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Wednesday
  • Monday, 27 January, 2025
    DR Congo
    DR Congo accuses Rwanda of ‘declaration of war’ after rebels enter key city

    Officials warn assault on Goma by Rwandan-backed M23 militia could lead to wider regional conflict

    Rwandan security officers watch as people fleeing the fighting in Goma, DR Congo, cross the border to enter the neighbouring city of Gisenyi in Rwanda on January 27 2025
  • Sunday, 26 January, 2025
    Jason Stearns
    Rwanda’s troublemaking in DRC would be easy to stop

    Western countries let the African nation get away with fomenting conflict in its neighbour

    M23 soldiers
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Anjana Ahuja
    Marburg outbreak in Rwanda shows some post-pandemic progress

    It is too early to know whether the prompt response to the virus is enough to turn the tide

    Andy Carter illustration of two scientists working on a vaccine as a virus looms large over them
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    UK immigration
    Last UK government spent more than £700mn on Rwanda scheme, Cooper says

    Home secretary criticises ‘shocking waste’ of money as she sets out plan to increase border security

    Yvette Cooper speaks in the House of Commons
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    TotalEnergies
    Total hands security contract for $20bn Mozambique gas project to Rwandan state-linked business

    Kigali pursues commercial expansion in the country after its army helps put down Islamist insurgency

    A satellite view of the Total Mozambique LNG project under construction in Afungi
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    Paul Kagame cements hold on Rwanda after election walkover

    Strongman president secures overwhelming victory after rival candidates were prevented from running

    Rwandan President Paul Kagame casting his vote
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Airlines
    RwandAir says Qatar Airways closing in on acquiring stake

    Carriers have been working on a deal expected to boost capacity in fast-growing market

    A Rwandair plane at the Kanombe, Kigali International Airport in Kigali
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Sunak suffers series of setbacks on first day of UK election campaign

    Prime minister cannot introduce signature policies on asylum and smoking before July 4

    Rishi Sunak speaking at the start of a six week election campaign on Thursday
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    News in-depthDR Congo
    Congo’s ‘forgotten’ war becomes a fight for survival

    Battle for city of Goma pits government forces and allied militia against Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group

    Congolese soldiers with guns
  • Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
    UK immigration
    UK Home Office detains asylum seekers destined for Rwanda

    ‘Large-scale’ operation in anticipation of first removals to Kigali comes as civil service union seeks judicial review

    Undated handout photo issued by the Home Office of immigration officers carrying out a detention visit
  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    UK immigration
    UK-Ireland migration dispute deepens as Dublin says it expects London to honour deal

    Irish justice minister says she will push ahead despite Rishi Sunak insisting Britain will not take back asylum seekers

    Helen McEntee
  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    UK immigration
    Over half of UK asylum seekers assigned for removal to Rwanda cannot be located

    Official data shows surging number of migrants falling into homelessness

    RNLI staff help migrants to disembark from a lifeboat in Kent after they were picked up at sea while attempting to cross the English Channel
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Britain’s egregious Rwanda asylum bill

    Plan to remove some small boat migrants to Africa is costly, flawed and sets a bad precedent

    A group of migrants on board an inflatable boat in northern France
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    ExplainerUK immigration
    What next for Sunak’s plans to fly UK asylum seekers to Rwanda?

    Removals are now likely to go ahead but the possibility of a clash with the European Court of Human Rights remains

    Rishi Sunak, with the Rwandan flag
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    Inside Politics
    How Sunak’s Rwanda gamble fits into his election bid

    Some Tory insiders favour going to the country early, fearing party disunity could worsen after May polls

    Prime minister Rishi Sunak and deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    UK immigration
    Sunak gets Rwanda bill through parliament

    House of Lords abandons efforts to amend legislation to underpin prime minister’s contentious removals plan

    Rishi Sunak at a press conference in London
  • Sunday, 21 April, 2024
    UK immigration
    ‘It’s not Barbieland’: Rwanda prepares to host asylum seekers sent from UK

    As Britain’s parliamentary ‘ping pong’ nears completion, critics warn migrants will not find the ‘good life they are looking for’

    Hope Hostel in Kigali, where migrants from the UK are expected to be taken after they arrive in Rwanda
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    UK immigration
    House of Lords insists on further changes to Sunak’s Rwanda bill

    New amendments by peers dash government hopes of asylum legislation becoming law this week

    Migrants crossing the English Channel on a small boat
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    The ECHR needs saving from itself

    Rulings on climate and migration offer Europe’s populists a rallying cry against the court’s legitimacy

    Illustration of big jagged cracks on the path leading up to the European Court of Human Rights building
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