Rwanda

  • Following a failed appeal, the first plane of deportees is set to leave for Rwanda. But the country’s poor track record for human rights raises questions about its ability to host new arrivals. A plane carrying the first group of deported UK asylum seekers was set to take off for Rwanda on Tuesday evening. The…

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  • A Catholic priest was murdered on Monday in the French western region of Vendée, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Twitter. Darmanin expressed “all his support to the Catholics of our country” and said he was headed to the site in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre. A suspect handed himself over to police and said he had killed the…

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  • Due to COVID-19, the traditional commemorative meeting of the General Assembly to mark the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda was postponed. However, on April 7th, the public is invited to reflect on one of the darkest chapters in human history when more than one million people – overwhelmingly Tutsi,…

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