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Jul
31
2024
By ALI BHAGAT and GENEVIEVE LEBARON
Rich countries are paying poorer ones to manage their refugee crises: 3 reasons this is dangerous

Rich countries are paying poorer ones to manage their refugee crises: 3 reasons this is dangerous

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
IN recent years, western nations have been sending asylum seekers who arrive at their borders to other countries. This is a practice known as offshoring. The UK has become the recent poster country of this practice. The UK, whose plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda was later scrapped after domestic and international opposition, has continually manufactured a perceived asylum threat. This led to slogans by the UK government such as “send the boats back” and “stop the boats”. Australia pioneered offshoring by sending asylum seekers to Nauru, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean. This began in 2012.…
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Jul
13
2024
By The African Mirror
US blocks Diego Garcia asylum seekers detention hearing

US blocks Diego Garcia asylum seekers detention hearing

WORLD
The US has blocked a British judge from holding a hearing on the British-held island of Diego Garcia to determine whether a group of asylum seekers is being unlawfully detained there. Around 60 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers have been confined to a fenced camp the size of a football pitch on Diego Garcia for nearly three years after fleeing Sri Lanka and India by boat.  Diego Garcia hosts a large US-UK military base where the local commander of US forces on the island controls access to the facility. The Supreme Court of the British Indian Ocean Territory, which includes Diego Garcia,…
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Jul
13
2024
By The African Mirror
Armed men disrupt Mediterranean migration boat rescues

Armed men disrupt Mediterranean migration boat rescues

NEWS
AN operation to rescue 93 asylum seekers and migrants onboard a wooden fishing boat off the coast of Libya took a dangerous turn on 9 July. As workers from the search and rescue NGO SOS Méditerranée were evacuating people from the vessel, two dinghies carrying armed, masked men arrived on the scene. Two of the men boarded the fishing boat, prompting the remaining asylum seekers and migrants onboard to jump into the sea. A spokesperson from SOS Méditerranée told the Guardian that it was unclear who the men were, although it was clear they were Libyan. “The people onboard, many who couldn’t swim, were…
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Jul
07
2024
By The African Mirror
UK-Rwanda asylum seekers scheme “dead and buried” – new PM

UK-Rwanda asylum seekers scheme “dead and buried” – new PM

NEWS
BRITAIN’S newly elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced the scrapping of the controversial plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. This marks Starmer's first major policy decision since winning a landslide election victory. Starmer declared the Rwanda scheme "dead and buried" during his first press conference as prime minister. He criticized the policy, stating it would have only affected about 1% of asylum seekers and failed to act as a deterrent. Reuters reports that the Rwanda plan, initially announced by the previous Conservative government in 2022, had faced years of legal challenges and had not resulted in any deportations.…
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Jun
13
2024
By The African Mirror
Rwanda says UN refugee agency lying in British asylum policy case

Rwanda says UN refugee agency lying in British asylum policy case

NEWS
RWANDA said the U.N. refugee agency had lied when the organisation told a British court this week that asylum seekers sent to the East African country could be moved on again to states where they risked torture or death. Lawyers representing the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) told the court on Monday that Rwanda's asylum system was inadequate, as part of a challenge to the British government's policy to deport asylum seekers there. The lawyers said removing asylum seekers to Rwanda put them at risk of being transferred again in a banned process known as refoulement - building on past evidence which…
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May
24
2024
By MICHAEL HOLDEN and ANDREW MACASKILL
With no flights before election, UK’s Rwanda migrant scheme may never get off ground

With no flights before election, UK’s Rwanda migrant scheme may never get off ground

NEWS
THE controversial plan to fly thousands of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda may never get off the ground after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that there would be no deportations before a national election in July. After taking office in October 2022, Sunak made the plan to send migrants who arrived in Britain without permission to the East African nation one of his flagship policies, saying it would put an end to thousands of asylum seekers coming on small boats across the Channel. In April, Sunak promised the first flights would take off in the next 10 to 12 weeks after parliament…
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May
04
2024
By The African Mirror
Dozens arrested after London protest blocking removal of asylum seekers

Dozens arrested after London protest blocking removal of asylum seekers

WORLD
BRITISH police arrested 45 people during a protest in London against the transfer of asylum seekers staying in a hotel to a barge off southern England. Dozens of protesters outside the hotel in Peckham, southeast London, attempted to stop a bus carrying the asylum seekers from leaving, reportedly deflating its tyres and obstructing the vehicle by surrounding it, London's Metropolitan Police said. Tackling illegal migration is one of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's top priorities, and in order to bring down the high costs of accommodating migrants in hotels while their asylum claims are processed, the government has been trying…
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May
01
2024
By The African Mirror
UK to deport migrants to Rwanda based on group agreed by Kigali, document shows

UK to deport migrants to Rwanda based on group agreed by Kigali, document shows

NEWS
THE first asylum seekers to be deported from Britain to Rwanda will come from a group of 5,700 people that Kigali has agreed in principle to take, according to a British government document published. Under a scheme that has divided political opinion in Britain, anyone who has arrived illegally after Jan. 1, 2022, is eligible to be deported to Rwanda. More than 50,000 people have arrived since that date, official figures show. Last week, Britain passed legislation that aims to override a UK Supreme Court ruling that the policy was unlawful by declaring that Rwanda must be treated as safe…
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Apr
28
2024
By PHILBERT GIRINEMA
Let us press on with UK migrant plan, Rwanda tells critics

Let us press on with UK migrant plan, Rwanda tells critics

NEWS
RWANDAN President Paul Kagame's government said that it would take as many migrants as Britain sends its way and urged "shouting" critics of the deportation plan to now let both nations proceed. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak expects first flights to leave in 10-12 weeks after parliament passed legislation this week to sidestep legal objections that the migrants could be sent back to nations where they may face mistreatment. "No matter what number is announced to arrive here tomorrow or after tomorrow ... we are capable of receiving them," deputy government spokesperson Alain Mukuralinda told Reuters, adding that Rwanda did not yet know dates…
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