UK-Rwanda relocation plan for asylum seekers is a hot potato

An activist blocking a road leading away from the Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre holds a banner during a protest against the British government's plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, near Heathrow airport in London, on June 14, 2022. PHOTO | REUTERS

In 2019, Rwanda agreed to take in hundreds of African immigrants held in horrid conditions in detention centres in Libya under an agreement with the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and the African Union.

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