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U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to push through a parliamentary vote on his government’s highly controversial Rwanda deportation legislation, as he promised that flights would begin taking asylum seekers to Rwanda in 10-12 weeks
A record number people had arrived in the U.K. on boats via the English Channel in the first quarter of this year, according to U.K. government data
Rwanda
Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge.
Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
It is highly elevated, giving it the soubriquet "land of a thousand hills" with its geography dominated by mountains in the west and savanna to the southeast
It is the most densely populated mainland African country
Its capital and largest city is Kigali.
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