{"id":22993,"date":"2026-01-28T07:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/rwanda-files-arbitration-case-against-uk-over-cancelled-asylum-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:53","slug":"rwanda-files-arbitration-case-against-uk-over-cancelled-asylum-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/rwanda-files-arbitration-case-against-uk-over-cancelled-asylum-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda files arbitration case against UK over cancelled asylum deal \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda said late on Tuesday that it had filed an arbitration case against Britain over a cancelled asylum deal, which United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Keir Starmer scrapped in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Under the deal, agreed between the two countries before Starmer took office, Rwanda would have been paid to take in migrants who had illegally arrived in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda&#8217;s government said in a statement posted on X that it had submitted a notice to The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration, arguing Britain had breached the financial arrangements of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda said that Britain had in 2024 requested it to forgo two payments of 50 million Pounds ($69 million) due in April 2025 and April 2026 in anticipation of the formal termination of the treaty underlying the deal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The East African country said it was prepared to agree, provided that the treaty was terminated and new financial terms were negotiated and agreed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Discussions between Rwanda and the UK did not however ultimately take place and the amounts remain due and payable under the treaty,&#8221; the government said on X.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22994,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-22993","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Rwanda said late on Tuesday that it had filed an arbitration case against Britain over a cancelled asylum deal","published_date":"2026-01-28 09:01:02","news_description":"Rwanda said late on Tuesday that it had filed an arbitration case against Britain over a cancelled asylum deal","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26105,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22993\/revisions\/26105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}