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Sunak’s Rwanda Bill a threat to Africa’s peace and stability

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After lengthy legal warfare and remonstration from human rights advocates, the Rwandan Bill has finally been passed in the British Parliament.

For migrants entering the UK illegally in the hope of being granted asylum, this new legislation shuts out that opportunity. Rather those that reach the shores of the UK will be sent all the way to Rwanda, as the UK effectively outsources its migrant crisis.

For the beleaguered UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, the first wave of deportations cannot come early enough.

Sunak is hoping that the outward flights of asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda will begin in July. He has pledged that the legislation will stop thousands of asylum seekers arriving on British

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