M23 now controls nearly all of North Kivu and the province’s vast mineral wealth—including tin (cassiterite), tantalum (coltan), tungsten (wolframite), and gold, which are critical for global electronics and industrial production.
The conflict comes amid rising global tensions after Donald Trump’s election, especially between Washington and Beijing, over control of strategic minerals like those present in the Congo.
Starmer’s inquiry will not address the problems in the National Health Service, social services and schools which prevented them from intervening effectively to shift Rudakubana from the path he was on. Nor will it pose the question: what are the psychological pressures at work in today’s society which drove him down that path in the first place?
Human Rights Watch published findings that working-class neighborhoods and the poorest areas have been most severely impacted by the floods due to “less solid structures, congestion and poor sanitation infrastructure”.
The frenzy over the passage of the ruling Conservatives’ anti-immigration legislation foreshadows the most right-wing general election campaign ever to be held in Britain.
Sunak’s response to the Supreme Court ruling against deportations to Rwanda demonstrates that any differences he has with Suella Braverman are purely tactical.
The populations in all these countries, like the vast majority of the world’s people, solidarise with the Palestinians. The “support” for the genocidal war being waged by Israel is in fact only the support of bourgeois ruling cliques.
The Labour Party has already declared that in government they would keep the barges as detention centres and other anti-immigration infrastructure of the Tories.
The government has until July 6 to lodge an appeal. While it is unlikely to be heard until the autumn, the Tories intend to have their legislation in place, up to and including the UK leaving the European Convention on Human Rights if that is required.
Thousands of migrants will be housed on barges, converted cruise ships and two former military bases in Essex, and Lincolnshire.
The Rwanda deportation policy is now widened to affect almost any migrant entering Britain, with the Home Office announcing a “memorandum of understanding, expanding the partnership further to all categories of people who pass through safe countries and make illegal and dangerous journeys to the UK.”
The High Court has crossed a Rubicon with today’s judgment. Its endorsement of the “Rwanda solution” is a milestone in the assault on democratic rights, above all the right to asylum.
The defeats ignited calls for Johnson to step down as party leader, less than three weeks after he survived a vote of no confidence with 41 percent of Tory MPs against him.
Johnson’s Conservative party responded to Tuesday’s ruling with frothing hostility. The prime minister warned that night that Britain may withdraw from European Convention on Human Rights.
Once in Rwanda, if an asylum application is deemed legitimate, the person will only be allowed to stay in Rwanda, not the UK. If not, they will be deported to a third country.
Macron’s speech addressing France’s role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide was a cynical attempt at historical falsification and political obfuscation.
Kabuga, who financed and helped equip the genocidal Interahamwe militias, had been located by police in 2007 but was still living quietly in the Paris suburbs.
The US Office of Global Justice warned the Rwandan government last week that it could face prosecution on war crimes charges.
Augustin Bizimungu, head of the Rwandan army at the time of the 1994 genocide, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Tensions began to emerge between President Paul Kagame and his Western backers in the course of the recent elections.
