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The Guardian - UK
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Emine Sinmaz in Kigali

‘I’d be scared to be deported’: refugees in Rwanda respond to UK plans

Zemen Fesaha
Zemen Fesaha, 26, left Eritrea in 2017 as he didn’t want to be a soldier. Photograph: Emine Simnaz/The Guardian

Many have attempted perilous crossings across the Mediterranean to reach the UK in the past. But asylum seekers at Rwanda’s Gashora transit centre say they are now too scared to try again for fear of ending up back where they started.

Zemen Fesaha, 26, from Eritrea, arrived at the sprawling complex of accommodation and leisure facilities in July. The refugee camp, an hour and a half’s drive from Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, houses 249 men, 125 women, and 83 children, who were evacuated from squalid detention centres in Libya.

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