A UK plan to move asylum seekers on its shores to Rwanda has been met with stiff opposition from human rights organizations. But the UK persists, and Rwanda is all too willing.
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Belgium wants to frame its relationship with Congo, Rwanda and Burundi as one looking into the future – but the past weighs heavily.
Violence in the DRC can be brought to an end if the geographical scope of the conflict is broadened to include all neighbouring countries.
The prevailing narrative around migrant smuggling has clouded the public’s understanding of the issue by obfuscating the role smuggling plays in helping refugees gain asylum.
Colonisation, genocide and changes in official languages have resulted in the hybridisation of languages. A mix of Kinyarwanda, French and English is dubbed kinyafranglais.
The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Kigali, Rwanda will be complicated by the UK’s plan to send refugees to Rwanda.
Internal affairs of the bloc may dominate the summit which seeks to address a wide range of international issues.
The court blocked the UK from deporting asylum-seekers to Rwanda until after cases in the UK are decided.
Rwandan authors have long been sidelined in debates about Rwanda and other conflict-affected societies.
The African Union’s Continental Early Warning System was created to anticipate and prevent conflicts, but it’s gone.
Summit provides opportunity to showcase modernity of Kigali and government achievements.
Recent clashes put eastern Congo’s M23 into the headlines again, but many other security problems persist in the area as diplomats struggle to tackle the underlying causes.
The plan to replace Museveni with his son has dramatically shifted from rumour to reality in recent months.
A significant number of Rwanda’s LGBT community experience hostility. This includes at work and when trying to access health services.
The deal undermines every human being’s right to seek asylum and commitments enshrined in the Refugee Convention.
Stricter measures had major impacts on farmers’ livelihoods and food security.
Richer nations are increasingly looking to offshore their immigration processing and further their own economic and political interests at the same time.
The choice of Rwanda has a logic about it. But it’s also controversial.
Moves by Moderna and BioNTech to make vaccines themselves in African countries signal that the companies aren’t considering licensing its technology to a third party for local manufacture.
Tension persists between the neighbours as Kampala is yet to address all of Kigali’s grievances.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, King's College London
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Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity
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Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Nottingham
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Visiting Researcher, University of Leeds
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Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
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Professeur des universités, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Adjunct assistant professor, University of Copenhagen
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Research Director of the Insecure Livelihoods Project, Ghent University
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Professor of International Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Directrice de recherches émérite au CNRS, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
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Professor of Law and Politics, Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB), University of Antwerp
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
