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Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gestures during his visit to The Boatyard in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, Monday Jan. 15, 2024. (Phil Harris/Pool Photo via AP)

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces Conservative rebellion in Parliament over Rwanda asylum plan

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Congo President Félix Tshisekedi attends a campaign rally ahead of the presidential elections, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)

Congo’s president promises focus on prosperity as his nation nervously prepares for milestone vote

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

MP's gather in the House of Commons ahead of the second reading vote, in London, Tuesday, Dec. 12 2023. U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is trying to cajole recalcitrant lawmakers into supporting his signature immigration policy in a key vote in Parliament. Defeat would leave his authority shredded and his government teetering. (UK Parliament via AP)

Rishi Sunak gets a respite after U.K. lawmakers vote in favor of the Rwanda migration bill

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gives an update on the plan to "stop the boats" and illegal migration during a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London, Thursday Dec. 7, 2023. (James Manning/Pool via AP)

The U.K. says it has paid Rwanda $300 million for a blocked asylum deal. No flights have taken off

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London, Thursday Dec. 7, 2023. (James Manning/Pool via AP)

Facing Conservative revolt, U.K. leader Sunak says judges won’t stop him sending migrants to Rwanda

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Home Secretary James Cleverly shakes hands with the British High Commissioner to Rwanda, Omar Daair, as he arrives at Kigali International Airport in Rwanda, where he will sign a new treaty with Rwanda, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. The treaty will address concerns by the Supreme Court, including assurances that Rwanda will not remove anybody transferred under the partnership to another country. (Ben Birchall/PA Wire via AP)

U.K. Home Secretary James Cleverly visits Rwanda to try to unblock controversial asylum plan

Associated Press

A view of the entrance of the Supreme Court, in London, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. Britain’s highest court is set to rule Wednesday, Nov. 15 on whether the government’s plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda is legal, delivering a boost or a blow to a contentious central policy of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s administration. Five justices on the U.K. Supreme Court will deliver judgment in the government’s attempt to overturn a lower court ruling that blocked deportations. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, file)

Top British court rejects government plan to ship asylum seekers to Rwanda

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

A view of the entrance of the Supreme Court, in London, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. Britain’s highest court is set to rule Wednesday, Nov. 15 on whether the government’s plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda is legal, delivering a boost or a blow to a contentious central policy of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s administration. Five justices on the U.K. Supreme Court will deliver judgment in the government’s attempt to overturn a lower court ruling that blocked deportations. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, file)

U.K. top court says a plan to send migrants to Rwanda is unlawful because they would be at risk

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Hutu refugee women and children wait to be registered at Kigali airport Rwanda, after they arrived on the UN plane from Kisangai, Zaire Sunday, May 4, 1997. Funding cuts to refugees living in Rwanda is threatening the right to education for children in more than 100,000 households who have fled conflict from different East African countries to live in five camps. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim, File)

Refugee children’s education in Rwanda under threat because of reduced U.N. funding

By Ignatius Ssuuna - Associated Press

The Supreme Court entrance is photographed in London, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. The British government's contentious policy to stem the flow of migrants faces one of its toughest challenges this week as the U.K. Supreme Court weighs whether it’s lawful to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda starting on Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)

British government tries to assure U.K. Supreme Court it’s safe to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda

By Brian Melley - Associated Press

FILE - Rwandan refugee children plead with Zairean soldiers to allow them across a bridge separating Rwanda and Zaire, which is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, where their mothers had crossed moments earlier before the soldiers closed the border, Aug. 20, 1994. Appeals judges on Monday, Aug. 7, 2023 threw out a decision by a United Nations court to set up a procedure to hear evidence against an elderly Rwandan genocide suspect who was declared unfit to face trial. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, file)

Rwanda genocide survivors criticize U.N. court’s call to permanently halt elderly suspect’s trial

By Ignatius Ssuuna - Associated Press

Britain's Home Secretary Suella Braverman pauses, during a press conference in the capital Kigali, Rwanda Saturday, March 18, 2023. A British court on Thursday, June 29, 2023 has ruled that a government plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda in an attempt to deter migrants from making risky journeys across the English Channel is unlawful. Court of Appeal judges said Rwanda could not be considered a “safe third country” where migrants could be sent. (AP Photo, File)

U.K. appeals court rules that plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Family photographs of some of those who died hang on display in an exhibition at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center in the capital Kigali, Rwanda, Friday, April 5, 2019. United Nations judges have on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, declared Felicien Kabuga, an elderly Rwandan genocide suspect, unfit to continue to stand trial because he has dementia and will establish a procedure to continue to hear evidence without the possibility of convicting him. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

U.N. judges declare 88-year-old Rwandan genocide suspect unfit to stand trial because of dementia

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

People thought to be migrants who undertook the crossing from France in small boats and were picked up in the Channel, wait to be disembarked from a British border force vessel, in Dover, southeast England, on June 17, 2022. Several asylum-seekers and refugee groups began a court challenge on Monday, April 24, 2023, to the British government’s plan to send hundreds of migrants on a one-way trip to Rwanda. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Migrants mount legal challenge to U.K.-Rwanda deportation plan

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the film "Hotel Rwanda" and is credited with saving more than 1,000 people by sheltering them at the hotel he managed during the genocide, attends a court hearing in Kigali, Rwanda, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Rwanda's government has commuted the sentence of Rusesabagina who was convicted of terrorism offenses years later in a widely criticized trial. Government spokeswoman Yolande Makolo told The Associated Press on Friday, March 24, 2023, that the 25-year sentence was commuted by presidential order after a request for clemency. (AP Photo/Muhizi Olivier, File)

Freed ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero Paul Rusesabagina expected to arrive in U.S. this week

By Juan A. Lozano and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the film "Hotel Rwanda" and is credited with saving more than 1,000 people by sheltering them at the hotel he managed during the genocide, attends a court hearing in Kigali, Rwanda, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Rwanda's government has commuted the sentence of Rusesabagina who was convicted of terrorism offenses years later in a widely criticized trial. Government spokeswoman Yolande Makolo told The Associated Press on Friday, March 24, 2023, that the 25-year sentence was commuted by presidential order after a request for clemency. (AP Photo/Muhizi Olivier, File)

Freed ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero in Qatar, heading to family in U.S.

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the film "Hotel Rwanda" and is credited with saving more than 1,000 people by sheltering them at the hotel he managed during the genocide, attends a court hearing in Kigali, Rwanda, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Rwanda's government has commuted the sentence of Rusesabagina who was convicted of terrorism offenses years later in a widely criticized trial. Government spokeswoman Yolande Makolo told The Associated Press on Friday, March 24, 2023, that the 25-year sentence was commuted by presidential order after a request for clemency. (AP Photo/Muhizi Olivier, File)

Rwanda says Rusesabagina of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ fame to be freed

By Cara Anna and Ignatius Ssuuna - Associated Press

Britain's Home Secretary Suella Braverman, left, and Rwanda's Minister of Infrastructure Ernest Nsabimana, right, lay bricks at another housing development for migrants, in the capital Kigali, Rwanda Sunday, March 19, 2023. Britain's government said Sunday that it could start deporting asylum-seekers to Rwanda in the next few months — but only if U.K. courts rule that the controversial policy is legal. (AP Photo)

U.K. aims to send migrants to Rwanda in months if courts agree

Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, is greeted by Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa Saturday March 4, 2023. Macron, on the last leg of an ambitious Africa trip that took him to Gabon, Angola, the Republic of Congo and Congo, wants to roll out more ambitious economic policies, in a bid to boost France's waning influence in the continent (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)

Congo leader urges Macron to back sanctions against Rwanda

By Jean-Yves Kamale - Associated Press

A M23 rebels stand with theirs weapons during a ceremony to mark the withdrawal from their positions in the town of Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo, on Dec. 23, 2022. The accounts are haunting. Abductions, torture, rapes. Scores of civilians including women and children have been killed by the M23 rebels in eastern Congo, according to a U.N. report expected to be published this week. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

Rwanda fires on Congo military aircraft accused of violation

By Cara Anna - Associated Press