Rwandan President Paul Kagame has denied allegations that his country is “trading human beings”. This is the president's first comment on Rwanda's deal with the UK on migrants.
“We are not trading human beings, please, we are actually helping,” he said during a virtual seminar with US’s Brown University.
The deal requires that asylum seekers arriving in the UK on small boats will be relocated to Rwanda for processing and resettlement.
The controversial £120m ($15m) deal has attracted criticism from different angles mostly, the opposition.
The deal was signed in the absence of the president who was then embarking on a tour to Congo-Brazzaville, Jamaica, and Barbados. The president says the money was not the motivation behind Rwanda agreeing to the deal.
Source: Africanews
