Rwanda takes the UK asylum seekers burden Kenya rejected
Migrants at the port of Dover after they disembarked, having been picked up while crossing the English Channel from France on April 14, 2022. The UK and Rwanda signed a deal to have some of them resettle in Kigali. PHOTO | AFP
Rwanda has agreed to take in immigrants denied entry into the United Kingdom even as Kenya declined London’s requests to help it ease the burden of unwanted guests.
And as Rwanda and the UK signed the Migration and Economic Development Partnership on Thursday, questions were being asked of the fate of those who will be relocated.