Rwanda in early conversations with us to take expanded migrants

Rwanda is in conversation with the Trump government about the recording of migrants deported from the United States, making it possible for the first African country to enter into such an agreement since President Trump has taken on and started a major action against migration.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Rwanda, Olivier JP Nduhungirehe, said late on Sunday that the government of his country was in the “early phase” conversations about receiving third countries from the United States.

“It is true that we are in discussion with the United States,” said Mr. Nduhungirehe An interview with Rwanda TVThe state broadcaster. “These conversations are still going on and it would be premature to conclude how they will unfold,” he added.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

Rwanda has long been positioned as A partner for Western countries who want to curb migrationOffer to provide asylum to migrants or to accommodate them while waiting somewhere else, sometimes in exchange for payment. But critics say that sending asylum seekers to Rwanda is unsafe, referring to that of the country Bad record about human rightsthe limited resources and the earlier intimidation and supervision of the authorities of migrants and refugees.

The Trump administration has used a number Hard -loud tactics to curb migrationIncluding deporting persons on well -published flights. Mr. Trump called on an age -old law in March to deport hundreds of alleged gang members From Venezuela to El Salvador, even when a federal judge tried to stop them. Washington is looking for more countries that would be willing to take people from the United States.

The Trump government has also asked countries to take back their citizens if they are deported from the United States and take punitive measures against those countries if they do not. At the beginning of April, State Secretary Marco Rubio Withdrawn visas For all South Sudanese subjects amid a dispute About the failure of the East African country to accept its deported citizens.

If Rwanda agrees with a deal with the Trump government, this would be the last agreement of the African country to take migrants.

The small, surrounded by land nation Hosts Hundreds of African refugees Saved from Libya and pending resettlement elsewhere in a joint partnership with the United Nations refugee office. It has too A deal signed with Denmark To improve cooperation in the field of asylum and migration, and it went in A secret partnership With Israel to Receive deported African migrants.

Rwanda also agreed to a deal with Great Britain to receive a controversial plan in a controversial plan that was later in a controversial plan in 2022 considered illegal by the British Supreme Court. Last year, the British government, then checked by the conservative party, Legislation To ignore the decision of the court and to explain Rwanda a ‘safe country’.