Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Rwanda is in the ‘early stage’ of talks with the Trump administration to accept migrants deported by the US, the East African country’s Foreign Affairs Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe has said. His comments come after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last month that Washington was ‘actively searching’ for countries that would take in ‘some of the most despicable human beings.’ Nduhungirehe said the talks were ‘not new to us’ as Rwanda had previously agreed to accept migrants deported by the UK. However, the UK abandoned the scheme, which faced numerous legal challenges, after Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government took office last July. Speaking to Rwandan TV on Sunday, Nduhungirehe said the government was ‘in the spirit’ of giving ‘another chance to migrants who have problems across the world.'” (05/05/25)