The Latest Breaking News from Kigali

A last minute intervention by the European Court of Human Rights blocked the British government from sending a plane carrying failed asylum seekers to Rwanda. Amid the contraversial migrant deal signed between London and Kigali, a recent report published by the Washington-based think-tank Freedom House, has called out Rwanda as…

A timeline of Home Office’s plans to send asylum seekers to Kigali – and what may happen next

The government aspires to provide ‘clean, modern accommodation’ with basic facilities and a safe space.

Yolande Makolo spoke to reporters in Kigali as the first deportation flight prepared to leave Britain

Arrangements for people deported from the UK described: what will happen when they reach Kigali?

A Government spokeswoman in Kigali said her country has entered its controversial partnership with Britain ‘for the right reasons’.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has beaten back criticism of his plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda, saying that efforts to block the flights were "abetting the work of criminal gangs" involved in smuggling people across borders, while the Church of England has called the deportations "immoral."

The Democratic Republic of Congo has accused Rwanda of an "invasion" after rebels it says receive support from Kigali overran a major trading post on the Ugandan border.

We don’t yet know whether today’s flight to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, will take off with even one passenger on board. But the policy of sending asylum seekers 4,000 miles away to central Africa raises difficult questions for all of us.