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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

UK asylum seeker deal leaves Rwanda hostel residents homeless

The Hope Hostel in Kigali
The Hope Hostel in Kigali remains unused because the UK government has so far failed to send a single asylum seeker to Rwanda. Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images

Former residents of a hostel in Rwanda who were forced to leave under a controversial deal to house asylum seekers flown from the UK say they have been left homeless and destitute while the property remains unused.

The men, all of whom are survivors of the Rwandan genocide, had lived in Hope Hostel in Kigali for up to eight years. But they were told to vacate two days after Priti Patel, the British home secretary, signed a £120m agreement to send refugees arriving in the UK by small boats to the east African country.

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