Rwanda
For better or adverse, Labor needs to toughen up
There is a parallel between the Albanese government and Joe Biden’s tenure. Both have been reasonably successful in policy delivery but their “nice” demeanour has been overshadowed by a forceful, divisive and ultimately dominating opposition.
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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.
- by Jennifer Byrne
Perspective
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.
- by Tony Wright
World of photos, April 6, 2024
The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
Does the peace sign still stand a chance?
A universal peace sign seems wildly optimistic now when almost everything from the colour of your hat to the emoji in your post is an ideological declaration.
- by Michael Rock
Special series
Behind the Headlines
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.
- by Tony Wright
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.
- by Jill Lawless
Tony Wright’s Column
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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.
- by Tony Wright
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.
- by Rob Harris
Sunak will use emergency law to start migrant flights to Rwanda
The British prime minister has reacted angrily to the Supreme Court’s ruling on his plan to deport asylum seekers.
- by Ben Riley-Smith and Charles Hymas
‘Unlawful’: Supreme Court rules against UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the British government’s scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of an Australian-style immigration policy is unlawful.
- by Michael Holden and Sam Tobin
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