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Botswana says it has been approached by the UK to take migrants
Botswana's foreign affairs minister says his country was approached by the United Kingdom to take in some of what it called "unwanted immigrants", but declined the request.
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Lemogang Kwape’s comments, in a telephone interview with South Africa’s Newzroom Afrika television channel Tuesday, were cited by the AP news agency Wednesday and came hours after the British Parliament approved legislation that would allow a contentious plan to send some migrants to Rwanda to proceed.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the first flights to the East African nation of Rwanda could take place in June.
Kwape did not say when the U.K. approached Botswana, a country in southern Africa, following the deal it struck with Rwanda in April 2022.
British media have reported that the U.K. government has held talks with four countries — Albania, Ghana, Kenya and Botswana — about replicating the Rwanda plan.
“I can confirm that indeed the British government, through their foreign secretary and minister for Africa, approached Botswana through diplomatic channels to receive illegal immigrants destined for the U.K., but we declined their request,” Kwape told Newzroom Afrika.
“We have enough problems of our own, especially immigration issues in our neighborhood,” the minister said, adding: “So I think it would be unfair for us to accept unwanted immigrants from another country while we are failing to deal with our own in the region.”
Sunak’s plan to stem the flow of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats to claim asylum in the U.K. has been beset by legal challenges and parliamentary delays and has been fiercely criticized by human rights groups.
Under the agreement, migrants arriving in the U.K. illegally or via small boats would be sent to Rwanda, where their asylum claims would be processed and, if successful, they would remain in Rwanda.
The British government has already paid Rwanda at least 240 million pounds ($270 million) for the asylum plan, although no migrants have yet been deported.
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