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Gavin Blackburn

Rwanda says UK 'intransigence' forced it to sue over funding for scrapped migrant deal

Rwanda is taking legal action against the British government for its refusal to disburse payments under a controversial agreement to receive deported migrants, an arrangement Westminster abandoned two years ago, a Rwandan official said on Tuesday.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer scrapped the deal, brokered by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2022, when he took office in July 2024, declaring it "dead and buried."

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