[ A major rescue operation took place after a small boat believed to be carrying around 50 refugees ran aground on a sandbank in the English Channel off the Kent coast. Coastguard helicopter rescue teams and RNLI lifeboats were involved in the rescue mission which unfolded on Goodwin Sands off the Deal coast. The rescuers … Read more
[ The Home Office’s unsuccessful scramble to meet Rishi Sunak’s pledge to clear an asylum backlog is leading to a new “crisis” with a rapidly expanding mountain of appeals threatening to clog up the tribunal system, i has learnt. Specialist lawyers have said there will not be enough of them to handle the extra cases … Read more
[ The Rwandan government has no plans to host migrants deported from the UK, regardless of changes made to the deal, claims the leader of an opposition party formed in exile. “There is no intention or capacity in Rwanda to accommodate these people,” Etienne Mutabazi, secretary general of the Rwanda National Congress (RNC), told i. … Read more
