No payout for Rwanda as court rules on failed UK migration deal

Britain will not have to pay Rwanda millions of dollars following the collapse of a controversial asylum agreement, after an international arbitration tribunal ruled in favour of the UK, reports Maghrebi Week on June 8th.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague rejected Rwanda’s claim for more than $130 million in compensation linked to the abandoned migration scheme.

Rwanda had pursued compensation after the British government cancelled the scheme, which was designed to relocate asylum seekers who arrived illegally in the UK to the East African nation.

Maghrebi Week, Maghrebi.org