US EditionRwanda seeks $134 million from the UK in arbitration over scrapped refugee deal
Rwanda demands over £100 million plus an apology for costs incurred preparing to host refugees after UK scrapped the Migration and Economic Development Partnership, Rwanda's Justice Minister said.
- Rwanda is seeking $134 million from the UK in arbitration over a scrapped refugee deal.
- The deal involved sending migrants who arrived in the UK to Rwanda, where their asylum claims would be processed.
- Rwanda alleges the UK violated part of the deal by not resettling vulnerable refugees from Rwanda.
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Rwanda takes UK to court seeking £100m over failed migrant deal
Rwanda is seeking more than £100 million it says the United Kingdom still owes from a scrapped 2022 deal to deport migrants, in a case that opened on Wednesday at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
Rwanda drags UK to arbitration over £100m rift in scrapped migrant deal
Rwanda has taken Britain to international arbitration, insisting it is still owed 100 million pounds ($134 million) after a refugee resettlement deal was abruptly abandoned when Prime Minister Keir Starmer took office in 2024. The original agreement, signed in 2022 under former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, aimed to transfer migrants arriving in the U.K. via...
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der Standard DEThe case now lies before the Permanent Arbitration Court in The Hague, for three days both parties will present their arguments in court
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