
This week the UK Supreme Court will rule on the legality of sending thousands of migrants who had sought asylum to UK. Here is what you need to know about Rwanda’s offer to curb the migration crisis.
The court decision, which carries significant political and rights implications, comes after Rwanda stepped forward, amidst, other richer countries to propose a workable plan to curtail trafficking gangs that are responsible for thousands of deaths across Mediterranean Sea.
Rwanda’s established asylum resettlement, processing and repatriation model is so far the only result-oriented arrangement. Close to 130,000 migrants housed in Rwanda from different countries have benefited from the country’s safety and remarkable leadership with some tapping into many of the country’s business opportunities.
By the end of last week alone, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) had confirmed that in partnership with Rwanda, close to 30,000 refugees had resettled in countries like the US, Canada and others. Of many procedures that the country provided was interview facilitation, health assessments, screening, referral, cultural orientation and the safe transport in the country of final destination.
Endorsed by African Union (AU), Rwanda’s refugee system was proven probable to curtail human trafficking and perilous journeys to Europe. Stemmed from an idea of Rwanda’s Head of State while addressing the meeting in Ethiopia, other African leaders did not hesitate to note that it was one of the quickest and safest methods to deter African migrants to take dangerous boat trips to Europe.
Countries like Libya whose coastlines are controlled largely by armed gangs had become notorious exit routes to Europe where human traffickers were collecting huge sums of money from the migrants. Traffickers had equally started to conduct mobilizations in many African countries to send people to Europe in bid to fleece money out of the would be migrants.
As the UK government battles court trials to halt the plan of sending migrants to Rwanda, countries like Germany and Denmark expressed stronger desires to actually adopt the Rwandan model of refugees’ management. Just last week, both Italy and Germany announced that they will negotiate with willing countries that wished to copy Rwanda’s model of refugees’ system. Italy for example announced that it is to build two migrant centers in Albania, capable of processing up to 36,000 migrants to solve its migration problems.
While German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged to look at whether asylum claims could be processed abroad in non-EU countries like Rwanda, leaders in Denmark have expressed interests in bilateral cooperation with Rwanda, to have some of the asylum seekers sent for processing.
Rwanda is not only the safest country where asylum seekers can be resettled, it’s model against the ongoing global migration crisis is a suitable solution and has proven workable when richer countries were not able to provide alternative solutions.
