British Home Secretary Suella Braverman visited Rwanda earlier this March, according to CNN. In light of this visit, it seems that the British government is one step closer to beginning its new controversial immigration scheme: resettling select asylum seekers in the small East African nation of Rwanda.
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Residents reported that the army had left the villages of Kibuma and Tongo and people are continuing to flee. This will lead to the worsening of an already existent humanitarian crisis in Eastern Congo where many people are living in tent cities with little access to food.
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On October 30, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) expelled Rwandan ambassador Vincent Karega over allegations of supporting rebels active in the east of the country, according to Deutsche Welle.
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Paul Rusesabagina, the man whose story inspired the Academy Award-nominated 2004 film “Hotel Rwanda,” has been arrested on charges of terrorism in his native country of Rwanda, according to CNN. The Rwandan government alleges that he is the “founder, leader, and sponsor of violent, armed, extremist terror outfits,” accused of perpetrating a series of rural attacks in the summer of 2018. News of his arrest only broke after Rwandan police and security officials publicly displayed him in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, at the end of August.
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Paul Kagame, the current president of Rwanda, runs one of the most repressive regimes in Africa, complete with secret police, censorship of the press, and complete political control with no meaningful opposition party.
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