THE HAGUE: Britain will not have to pay Rwanda tens of millions of pounds over the canceled deal to deport asylum seekers to the East African nation, the Permanent Court of Arbitration said on Monday.
The Hague-based body said it had rejected all financial claims made by Rwanda, which had argued Britain still needed to honor the terms of the deal which Prime Minister Keir Starmer canceled in 2024.
Starmer scrapped the prior Conservative government’s asylum plan, under which Rwanda would have been paid to take in migrants who had illegally arrived in Britain.
The three-judge panel found that in November 2024, Rwanda agreed in diplomatic notes ‘to forgo any additional payments by the United Kingdom in April 2025 and April 2026.’
Kigali was asking for at least £60 million ($80 million), the court documents showed.
