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Rwanda has confirmed a new bilateral deal to receive deported migrants from the United States, raising fresh questions over human rights safeguards and Washington’s global deportation agenda.
Zig Diaries
World News
Date: Tuesday, 5 August 2025
Time: 15: PM WAT
Location: 📍Kigali, Rwanda
Rwanda becomes the third African nation to accept migrants deported from the US under the Trump administration’s controversial return policy.
Rwanda has
officially confirmed that it will receive up to 250 deported migrants from the
United States, making it the third African country to enter such an agreement
under President Donald Trump’s revived mass deportation programme.
Government
spokesperson, Yolande Makolo, announced the development on Tuesday, stating
that the East African nation agreed to the deal due to its long-standing values
of reintegration and rehabilitation, shaped by the country’s own history of
displacement.
“Rwanda has
agreed with the United States to accept up to 250 migrants, in part because
nearly every Rwandan family has experienced the hardships of displacement,”
Makolo said in a statement cited by Reuters.
Rwanda now
joins South Sudan and Eswatini in signing similar accords with Washington.
However, rights advocates and critics warn that the move could place vulnerable
deportees at risk, especially those sent to unfamiliar third-party countries
with limited support systems or no personal ties.
Some organisations
have also raised alarm over Rwanda’s own human rights record, questioning
whether deported migrants—some of whom may carry criminal records or face legal
ambiguity—will be safe and fairly treated upon arrival.
Anticipating
these concerns, Makolo clarified that Rwanda would retain full discretion on
who is permitted to resettle. “Under the agreement, Rwanda has the ability to
approve each individual proposed for resettlement,” she noted.
The Trump
administration has not yet released details of how the screening process will
work, nor the timeline for the initial transfers.
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