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High school sweethearts Noel Yandamutso Zihabamwe and Delphine Uwamwezi Yandamutso.

As refugees, they slept on the ground. Three kids, study and work is ‘nothing’

When Noël fled the Rwandan regime, his long-time sweetheart Delphine followed.

  • Amanda Hooton

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A weekly market in Nyamata. The south-eastern town is the site of a memorial to the 1994 genocide.

Three decades after the genocide, Rwanda is a nation transformed

Years after reporting on a broken country, a journalist revisits Rwanda to see its famous gorillas – and discovers a land in the midst of renewal.

  • Jennifer Byrne
Children in a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) 1994, at the time of the Rwandan genocide.

Suffer the little children. It is ever the way, from Rwanda to Gaza

They are the innocents, and it is never their fight. But it is the children of conflict who always suffer the most.

  • Tony Wright
Emma Pidden waits for her bus on Congress Street in Portland, Maine following a spring snowstorm.
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World of photos, April 6, 2024

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  • Michael Rock
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Zairean civil guardsmen patrolling the streets of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A man stepped out on the road with an AK-47. I traded my life back with cigarettes – and a desperate joke

Everyone in Rwanda knew travelling after dark was inviting trouble. I’d taken a risk for a trivial reason, and now a large man with an assault rifle was at the window of the car, making demands.

  • Tony Wright
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has vowed to “stop the boats”.

Sunak survives vote on bill to send migrants on one-way trip to Rwanda

The result averts a defeat that would have left the British PM’s authority shredded and his government teetering.

  • Jill Lawless
A Palestinian child is treated after Israeli airstrikes on Gaza last month.

There are worse things stolen from children than the colour of the sea

The TV at home is tuned to Bluey instead of the news when my granddaughter is around, for the images of children suffering are too ghastly for a child.

  • Tony Wright
A passenger in the arrivals hall of Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport in London. The UK government wants to slash immigration levels.

UK to slash foreign workers, student intakes to cut record immigration

Under the plan to cut the migrant intake by 300,000 people a year, foreign health and care workers would be banned from bringing their children, spouses and partners to the UK.

  • Rob Harris

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