Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Rwanda on Tuesday agreed to accept hundreds of U.S.-deported migrants as part of a broad effort by the Trump administration to get African nations to take in deportees.
"Rwanda has agreed with the United States to accept up to 250 migrants, in part because nearly every Rwandan family has experienced the hardships of displacement," Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo told Politico and The New York Times.
Rwanda's societal values, Makolo claimed in a statement, were "founded on reintegration and rehabilitation."
Rwanda's foreign minister Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe initially confirmed the talks in May.
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