Rwanda agrees to take deportees from the US after migrant deal with UK collapsed

Ms Makolo did not provide a timeline for any deportees to arrive in Rwanda or say if they would arrive at once or in several batches

US President Donald Trump listens as Rwanda’s foreign minister Olivier Nduhungirehe speaks in the Oval Office as Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio look on. Picture: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

Rwanda on Tuesday became the third African nation to agree to accept deportees from the United States under the Trump administration’s plans to send migrants to countries they have no ties with to get them off American soil.

Rwandan government spokeswoman Yolande Makolo told The Associated Press in a statement that the East African country would accept up to 250 deportees from the US, with “the ability to approve each individual proposed for resettlement” under the agreement.