
Rwanda asylum plan: Flight due to depart for Kigali
The UK government insists plane will take off after four individual legal challenges fail.
Rwanda's government spokesperson says the deal to relocate asylum seekers from the UK to the East African country is neither immoral nor a punishment.
A confrontation is brewing between residents in Liberia’s western region and a gold mining company after allegations that the processing plant is spilling industrial waste.
And remembering the Grenfell tragedy five years on. We hear from the artist creating a huge quilt woven with Kente cloth as a memorial to the 72 residents who died when fire engulfed the London tower block.
Photo: Campaigners in the UK, opposed to the UK-Rwanda asylum plan protest outside an Immigration Removal Centre. Credit: Reuters.
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