{"id":15672,"date":"2022-04-21T16:24:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T16:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kagame-hits-back-at-critics-of-rwanda-uk-migration-deal"},"modified":"2022-04-21T16:54:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T16:54:50","slug":"kagame-hits-back-at-critics-of-rwanda-uk-migration-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/kagame-hits-back-at-critics-of-rwanda-uk-migration-deal","title":{"rendered":"Kagame hits back at critics of Rwanda-UK migration deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>President Paul Kagame has hit back at those who have likened a migration deal recently signed between Rwanda and the UK to trading in human beings.<\/p>\n

The UK, through the Migration and Economic Development Partnership, seeks to transfer unauthorised migrants and asylum seekers to Rwanda.<\/p>\n

President Kagame, who was speaking virtually at a seminar dubbed, \u2018Rwanda Past and Present\u2019, and hosted by Brown University\u2019s Watson Institute, noted that the deal was instead an innovative approach designed to help address the global migration crisis.<\/p>\n

He was Wednesday night fielding questions on a wide range of topics during a conversation moderated by Stephen Kinzer, the American author of \u2018A Thousand Hills: Rwanda\u2019s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not trading human beings, please. This is not the case, we are actually helping,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a clear cut issue and it was actually something of an innovation that Rwanda put forth to deal with this migration issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kagame said that people need to go a little bit into history to understand the rationale and context of the migration partnership between Rwanda and the UK.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis problem of dealing with immigrants doesn\u2019t start with what we arrived at as the deal between UK and Rwanda,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He cited a 2018 decision by Rwanda to help find a solution to a humanitarian crisis involving migrants that had unfolded in Libya.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese people were stuck in Libya; they were trying to cross into Europe. Some (had) already died trying to cross the Mediterranean, others were kept in prison in Libya, in different cities and they were really stuck,\u201d the Head of State observed.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cAt that time, I was the Chairman of the AU (African Union). And when the issue came up to me, I said, \u2018well, we are not a rich country, we are not a big country, but there are solutions we can always help find and solve big problems,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we told those international institutions that \u2018we\u2019re trying to deal with the problem\u2026why don\u2019t you actually bring these people (immigrants) to Rwanda?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The President also cited the fact that Rwanda has for decades hosted refugees. \u201cThey are here, we live with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rwanda was approached because of that history, and also how the Libyan case was handled, Kagame said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Rwanda. President Paul Kagame has hit back at those who have likened a migration deal recently signed between Rwanda and the UK to trading in human beings. The UK, through the Migration and Economic Development Partnership, seeks to transfer unauthorised migrants and asylum seekers to Rwanda. 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