Rwanda raises scrapped migrant projects to life
The talks between Rwanda and the United States will continue in the coming weeks and the message is following a direct appeal from US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio.
– We work with other countries and say that « we want to send some of the most disgusting people to you », said Rubio at a press conference last week And added that « the farther from America, the better. »
Rwanda thus sets Willingly up. From Rwanda’s government it is called, According to CBSthat you have a « unique previous experience » of handling deported people.
The unique experience has rather the four people from Sri Lanka which was sent from the British island of Diego Garcia to Rwanda two years ago. For they are the only people who ever landed in Rwanda within the framework of Britain’s controversial agreements that cost the British taxpayers At least £ 700 millionequivalent to SEK 9 billion. The agreement was demolished by Keir Starmer shortly after he took over as Prime Minister last year. At least one third of all money ended up with the Rwanda government.
But it is not primarily financial motives that explain Rwanda’s commitment. As in the case of the UK, it is rather political capital that one wants to gain from cooperation with the United States.
For over 30 years If the current regime has ruled Rwanda with iron hand and dictator Paul Kagame, who « won » last year’s election with over 99 percent of the vote, has become increasingly isolated in his own region. Not least since January when a rebel group that is actively supported by Rwanda, M23, took control of large parts of the neighboring Congo-Kinshasa. In the fighting, peacekeeping soldiers from Tanzania, Malawi and South Africa were killed.
The press has been great on Kagame since then and during the past week signals have come that peace negotiations may be on the move after Trump’s administration has turned around the arms of both Rwanda and Congo.
The United States is interested by increasing one’s involvement in the region if one can at the same time be able to gain the valuable minerals that exist in both Rwanda and Congo. Many of the minerals used in the ongoing technology revolution originate in the region.
But the one who calls the books will soon realize that one overwhelming part of production Occurs in Congo and not in Rwanda which has only a fraction of the assets. It is in this situation that Kigali has found another meat bone to dangle in front of Donald Trump.
