Rwanda agrees to take 250 migrants exempted from America, spokesperson told BBC

Rwanda has said that he will accept 250 migrants from the US in a deal agreeing with President Donald Trump’s administration.

Under the scheme, the exile will be “given the workforce training, health care, and housing to start their lives in Rwanda”, government spokesperson Yolande Macole confirmed the BBC.

One condition of the agreement was that in Rwanda, “every person proposed for rehabilitation would have the ability to approve”, he said.

The White House has not commented directly on the deal, but told the BBC that it was constantly talking to countries “is ready to help us remove illegal aliens [ex-President] Joe Biden “allowed America to” infiltrate “.

Since Trump came to power in January, he focused on a comprehensive collective exile plan to quickly remove the migrants unspecified from the US, a major electoral promise.

A deal between Rwanda and America came out in MayUS State Secretary Marco Rubio said Washington was “actively discovered” for a country, which he described as “some of the most disgusting humans”.

The Trump administration has asked many African countries to accept deported migrants whose home countries have refused to withdraw them. Eswatini and South Sudan have recently accepted some, including exiled criminals.

Ms. Makolo told the BBC that Rwanda had moved ahead with the deal with the US as “almost every rough family had experienced the difficulties of displacement”.

He said that the values of Rawandan society were established “on layer and rehabilitation”.

It echoes since May when Rwanda’s Foreign Affairs Minister said that the country, which had gone through a massacre in the mid -1990s, was led by “problems worldwide” in the “feeling” to give them another chance to those migrants.

Under a deal, the United Nations agreed with the refugee agency and the African Union six years ago, Around 3,000 refugees and shelter seekers stranded in Libya were taken out in Rwanda between September 2019 and April 2025.The United Nations says that many of these people have been resettled again elsewhere.

Rwanda made a deal with the UK, agreed with the Conservative Government in 2022, to accept the shelter seekers.

But Britain ends this planWhich was facing several legal challenges in July last year after taking over as Sir Kir Stmper’s labor government.

Britain had paid Rwanda £ 240m ($ 310m), even built places to make homemakers home. It is not clear what has happened to these facilities.

The Reuters News Agency stated that an anonymous rapport officer had said that the US would be given an unspecified grant to Kigli as part of the deal, but has not been confirmed.

Ms. Makolo told the BBC that more details would be provided once working.

Human rights experts have raised concerns that remove a nation that is not the place of the origin of a migrant – known as the third country – can violate international law.

Rwanda has been criticized for her human rights records first, including the risk that those sent to the East African nation can again be deported in countries where they may face danger.

But the government of Rwanda said that it can provide a safe place for migrants.

The country has caught fire to support the M23 rebel group entangled in a conflict in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo – an allegation that it has rejected.

In June, Rwanda and Dr. A ceasefire deal was signed by the Congo in Washington As part of the ongoing peace process aimed at ending the instability of three decades in the region.

BBC’s Barbara plate in Nairobi Additional Reporting from Ashar and Bernad Debman Junior in White House