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<strong>Editorial:</strong> Rishi Sunak’s rightward journey on asylum is turning the UK into a darker place

Foreign Office paper says not enough being done, with over half the population living on less than $1.90 a day

Paul Kagame sees himself as indispensable to a still fragile country | Middle East & Africa

Michela Wrong says she ‘often wake[s] screaming in the night, convinced Rwandan agents have broken into my flat’

Kagame’s government targeted journalists who uncovered killings, disappearances and torture linked to the regime

Reader Lisa Norton because she gets in touch from Rome, which is slightly warmer than chilly Alba, while the local architecture is perhaps a tad…

Six of the best books about an African giant | The Economist reads

Britain and France back Kigali for now but some of its neighbours are losing patience, The fight for control of eastern Congo-Kinshasa is intensifying in the weeks leading up to the countrys elections due on 20 December. At the centre of it is Rwanda. The Kigali governments continuing support for the M23 militia, and the lack of credence given to its strident denials of this, are complicating its relations with the East African Community and the wider international system.

Perhaps the best way to begin this piece is to ask readers to dust off their copies of Ngugi Wa Thiong’O’ s Weep Not, Child, Alex La Guma’s A walk in the

Eritrea’s Mao-reading president used to seem like a relic. Now he’s on a roll | 1843 magazine