
Rwanda in Early Talks With U.S. to Take Expelled Migrants
- Africa
- May 5, 2025
Rwanda Is in Talks with the Trump Administration About Take In Migrants That Have Been Sport From The United States, Potentialy Making It The First African Country to Enter Sweepdownnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
Rwanda Foreign Minister Olivier JP Nduhungyrehe said on Sunday night the government of his country was in the “initial stage” conversations about receiving sports from the third country in the United States.
“It is true that we are in conversations with the United States,” said Mr. NDUHUNGEREHE in an interview with Ruanda TV, the state station. “These conversations are still lighting, and it would be premature to conclude how they will develop,” he added.
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Rwanda has long positioned himself as a partner of Western nations to stop migration, offering to provide asylum to migrants or the house while waiting for resettlement elsewhere, sometimes in exchange for payment. But critics say that sending asylum applicants to Rwanda is insecure, the poor history of Cittry’s human rights, its limited resources and the previous intimidation of the authorities and the surveillance of migrants and refugees.
The Trump administration has deployed a hard line number or tactics to stop migration, including deportation of individuals on well -advertised flights. Trump invoked a centenary law in March to deport hundreds of alleged gang members of Venezuela to El Salvador, even when a federal judge sought to stop them. Washington has been looking for more countries that are willing to take people expelled from the United States.
The Trump administration has also been asking countries to recover their citizens if they are deported from the United States and taking punitive measures against those nations if they do not. At the beginning of April, Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked visas for all citizens of southern Sudan in the midst of a dispute over the failure of the Eastern Africa country to accept their deported citizens.
If Ruanda agrees with an agreement with the Trump administration, it would be the last agreement of the African country to take migrants.
The small nation without coastlines houses hundreds of African refugees rescued from Libya and waiting for resettlement in other parts of a joint association with the United Nations Agency for refugees. He has also signed an agreement with Denmark to improve cooperation in asylum and migration, and entered a secret association with Israel to receive deported African migrants.
Ruanda also agreed an agreement with Great Britain to receive asylum applicants from the third country in 2022 in a contentious plan that was later illegal by the British Supreme Court. Last year, the British government, then controlled by the Conservative Party, approved the legislation to annul the decision of the court and declare Rwanda as a “safe country.”