"The UK government has been trying to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for the last couple of years (as of 2024). This is the announcement of a RwandarAir flight arriving in Kigali from London.

"It is the first thing that future asylum seekers will hear when arriving to their new home based on current government plans (at the time of recording).

Recorded by Carlos Vargas-Silva.

Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration. 

For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration

IMAGE: Abhishek Singh from Pune, India, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons