Rwanda gets $157m in deal with UK to host migrants, asylum seekers
Migrants sit beside a boat used to cross the English Channel as more migrants are helped ashore at a beach in Dungeness, on the south-east coast of England, on November 24, 2021, after being rescued while making the crossing. PHOTO | BEN STANSALL | AFP
Rwanda and the United Kingdom on Thursday signed a migration deal that will see asylum seekers who arrive illegally in the UK on small boats, across the English Channel, given a one-way ticket to Kigali to wait out their applications.
UK’s Home Secretary Priti Patel, who is in Kigali, signed the “Rwanda-UK Migration and Economic Development Partnership” with Rwanda’s Foreign Affairs Minister Vincent Biruta.
