The Home Office confirmed last night it had abandoned controversial plans to create "transit processing centres" in East Africa for asylum seekers in the face of opposition in Tanzania and criticism from the EU. Instead it is seeking to repackage plans to process asylum seekers in their own region of origin in a scheme possibly linked to extra aid.
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