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Residents flee fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese forces near Kibumba, some 20 kms ( 12 miles) North of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Friday Oct. 28, 2022. Hundreds have been killed and nearly 200,000 people displaced since fighting erupted a year ago. Congo has long accused Rwanda of backing the rebels. (AP Photo/Justin Kabumba)

Congo expels Rwandan ambassador after new rebel advance

By Justin Kabumba - Associated Press

This combo of file photos shows the remaining candidates in the Conservative Party leadership race, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. The two candidates to become Britain’s next prime minister have begun a head-to-head battle for the votes of Conservative Party members who will choose the country’s new leader. Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak is promising fiscal prudence. (AP Photo, File)

Both British PM candidates support stalled plan to ship asylum seekers to Rwanda

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

The Rwandan capital of Kigali is seen from one of the overlooking hills on April 6, 2014. Expectations are high in Rwanda as the East African nation prepares to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit in June 2022. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

As Prince Charles anchors Commonwealth, challenges ahead

By Rodney Muhumuza and Jill Lawless - Associated Press

FILE - Elizabeth Truss, Britain's Foreign Secretary leaves a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Truss says the first deportation flight to Rwanda will take off in the evening, Tuesday, June 14, regardless of how many people are on board, as immigration attorneys launch case-by-case appeals on behalf of the migrants scheduled for removal. The comments comes a day after two British courts refused to block the deportation flights, rejecting last-ditch appeals filed by immigration rights advocates and labor unions. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

UK set to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda under new plan

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Peter Nyuoni, right, from Sudan, who was evacuated from Libya to Rwanda, plays pool with others at the Gashora transit center for refugees and asylum-seekers, in the Bugesera district of Rwanda Friday, June 10, 2022. As Britain plans to send its first group of asylum-seekers to Rwanda amid outcries and legal challenges, some who came there from Libya under earlier arrangements with the United Nations say the new arrivals can expect a difficult time ahead. (AP Photo)

Refugees in Rwanda warn of challenges for arrivals from U.K.

By Ignatius Ssuuna - Associated Press

Britain's Home Secretary Priti Patel speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, May 19, 2022. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Britain, Rwanda defend asylum-seekers plan at U.N. agencies

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

In this Friday, Feb. 26, 2021 file photo, 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. A court in Rwanda said Monday, Sept. 20, 2021, that Rusesabagina, who boycotted the announcement after declaring he didn't expect justice in a trial he called a "sham," is guilty of terror-related offenses. (AP Photo/Muhizi Olivier, File)

‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero found guilty of terror-related charges

By Ignatius Ssuuna - Associated Press

In this Monday, April 8, 2019, file photo, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame answers questions from the media at a press conference at a convention center in the capital Kigali, Rwanda. A report commissioned by the Rwandan government due to be made public on Monday, April 19, 2021, concludes that the French government bears "significant" responsibility for "enabling a foreseeable genocide" that left more than 800,000 dead in 1994 and that France "did nothing to stop" the massacres. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Rwanda report blames France for ‘enabling’ the 1994 genocide

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

FILE- In this Friday, April 5, 2019 file photo, flowers are laid on top of a glass case containing the skulls of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge in the church, kept as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide, inside the church in Ntarama, Rwanda. A commission that spent nearly two years uncovering France's role in 1994's Rwandan genocide concluded Friday, March 26, 2021 that the country reacted too slowly in appreciating the extent of the horror that left over 800,000 dead and bears &quot;heavy and overwhelming responsibilities&quot; in the drift that led to the killings, but cleared the country of any complicity in the slaughter that mainly targeted Rwanda's Tutsi ethnic minority. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Rwanda’s Kagame welcomes French ‘truth’ about the genocide

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA and RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid (21) dunks past Washington Wizards guard Russell Westbrook, bottom, during the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, March 12, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

African basketball league to go ahead in Rwanda in May

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the film &quot;Hotel Rwanda&quot; and is credited with saving more than 1,000 people by sheltering them at the hotel he managed during the genocide, speaks to lawyers as he attends a court hearing in Kigali, Rwanda, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. The judge on Friday rejected Rusesabagina's argument in his terrorism trial that a court there cannot try him because he is no longer a citizen. (AP Photo/Muhizi Olivier)

Court: ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero wasn’t kidnapped, faces trial

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the film &quot;Hotel Rwanda&quot; 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. The judge on Friday rejected Rusesabagina's argument in his terrorism trial that a court there cannot try him because he is no longer a citizen. (AP Photo/Muhizi Olivier)

‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero was tricked onto plane, into arrest

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

The first arrival of COVID-19 vaccines to Kenya is offloaded from a Qatar Airways flight at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, early Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Around 1.02 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India arrived at the airport as part of the COVAX facility, according to the Ministry of Health. (AP Photo)

COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to African nations pick up speed

By CARA ANNA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA and TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Rwanda receives 1st batch of COVID-19 vaccines

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, file photo, Paul Rusesabagina, center, whose story inspired the film &quot;Hotel Rwanda&quot; for saving people from genocide, appears at the Kicukiro Primary Court in the capital Kigali, Rwanda. As the terrorism trial for Rusesabagina is set to start on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, his family says the critic of longtime Rwandan President Paul Kagame has no chance at a fair trial and might die from poor health behind bars. (AP Photo, File)

Rwandan court rules it can try ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

Exiled Rwandan opposition figure shot dead in South Africa

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press

Woman seeks to educate Rwandan kids through short stories

By GREG SWATEK and The Frederick News-Post - Associated Press

Terrorism trial begins for man who inspired ‘Hotel Rwanda’

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero faces trial as family fears for his life

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, April 4, 2014 file photo, the skulls and bones of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge inside the church are laid out as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide in Ntarama, Rwanda. Félicien Kabuga, a former radio station owner, appeared Wednesday in a United Nations courtroom to face charges that he armed and incited militias that took part in Rwanda's 1994 genocide. It was the first time Kabuga had appeared before the U.N.'s International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals since he was transferred to The Hague following his arrest outside Paris in May. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Rwandan genocide suspect enters not guilty pleas at UN court

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press