Lindsey Hilsum
General Karenzi: bluster and fury won’t change the law
I have never heard President Kagame of Rwanda so angry. As he addressed parliament in Kigali yesterday his words dripped with fury and venom.
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Will immigration determine the election and Sunak’s future?
In the Political Fourcast, Lord Jo Johnson and MP Margaret Hodge join Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Gary Gibbon to discuss planes and plots as Rishi Sunak tries to get asylum-seeker flights in the air.
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Sunak pledges emergency legislation after Rwanda policy blocked by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has ruled that Rwanda is not a safe country to deport asylum seekers – so Rishi Sunak has pledged emergency legislation to declare that it is.
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Ministers could spend £169,000 on every asylum seeker forcibly removed to Rwanda
Ministers have admitted that their new illegal migration policy will have to deter nearly four in 10 small boat crossings before it saves money for the taxpayer.
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Rwandan spy chief General Karenzi granted bail
Rwanda’s intelligence chief has been granted bail by a London court – after he refused consent to his extradition to Spain over alleged war crimes.
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Lindsey Hilsum
UK arrests one of Rwanda’s most senior military officers
The detention of General Emmanuel Karake Karenzi will strain relationships between Rwanda and the UK. He is expected to go before a court on Thursday.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Why we must recognise the needs of the children of rape
This week’s Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict must show that helping the children of rape is as important as acknowledging the suffering of their mothers.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Memories of horror and guilt after Rwanda’s genocide
Lindsey Hilsum was living in the Rwandan capital when the killings began – but it was not before hundreds of thousands of lives were lost that she realised she was witnessing genocide.
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FactCheck Q&A: The shady regimes that still get UK aid
Rwanda will see its aid budget reduced amid allegations it is helping rebels in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. Who else gets our money – and are their hands clean?
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Lindsey Hilsum
Suddenly, the British government changes policy on Rwanda
The Foreign Office had been reluctant to blame President Kagame’s government for the surge in fighting in the east of the DR Congo. That changed when it emerged Rwanda was behind the M23 rebel group which seized Goma.
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Craving for mineral wealth fuels support for Bosco
A UN report alleges direct Rwandan assistance to Bosco Ntaganda’s rebels, setting them up, reinforcing them, arming, supplying and funding them and recruiting for them – all in violation of UN sanctions.
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Lindsey Hilsum
UN intervention in Libya, so why not in Syria?
Are Syrians paying the price for Libyans’ freedom given that one year on, it seems unlikely that such international intervention will be contemplated again.
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The history we're missing: stories in Africa
With uprisings sweeping the Middle East, and fugitive killers like Osama bin Laden and Ratko Mladic captured, this is a historic year. Lindsey Hilsum looks at the historic stories that are being missed.
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Congo: The worst war in the world
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum on the grim reality of what lies behind today’s report on genocide in the Congo.
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Rwanda: crescendo of intimidation
When a missing Rwandan politician turns up dead, his head partially severed by a machete blow, Rwandans shudder, writes Jonathan Miller