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The government's Rwanda bill - to send UK asylum seekers to be processed in Africa - has finally been approved by Parliament, after two years of legal battles and political wrangling.
April 28, 2024 at 8:22 AM. The first flight to Rwanda was scheduled for June 2022, but was cancelled after legal challenges [Reuters] Migrants are to start being detained within weeks in ...
Rwanda’s ethnic composition remains largely unchanged since 1994, with a Hutu majority. The Tutsis account for 14% and the Twa just 1% of Rwanda’s 14 million people.
Several Rwandan and Congolese civilians wounded. In 2022, heavy tensions broke out between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, which have led to several alleged attacks by Congolese and Rwandan forces on each other's territory. Rwandan forces have been caught crossing into the DRC multiple times, usually fighting alongside ...
The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred between 7 April and 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. [4] [5] During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu militias.
The New Times is a national English language newspaper in Rwanda. It was established in 1995 shortly after the Rwandan genocide. They also used to have a Kinyarwanda-language weekly called Izuba Rirashe. The New Times is published in Kigali from Monday to Saturday, with its sister paper the Sunday Times, appearing on Sundays.
April 7, 2024 at 8:40 AM. By Philbert Girinema. KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda's president on Sunday led commemorations to mark 30 years since the 1994 genocide that killed more than 1 million people ...
Rwanda, [a] officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.