Arbitrators reject Kigali claim against UK for scrapped migrant deal

Migrants disembark from a lifeboat as they arrive at Port of Dover in Dover, Britain, on April 23, 2024.

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Britain will not have to pay Rwanda tens of millions of pounds over a cancelled asylum deal, the Permanent Court of Arbitration said on Monday.

The Hague-based body said it had rejected all financial claims made by Rwanda, which had argued Britain still needed to honour the terms of the deal which Prime Minister Keir Starmer cancelled in 2024.