Scandale de Boris Johnson plus ridicule que son prédécesseur Tony Blair officiellement Conseiller mais en réalité Patron de Kagame depuis 1994. Tout cela au dos et au mépris de la population du Rwanda et de tous les vrais africains.
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UK asylum deal: Is Rwanda a land of safety or fear?
By Lucy Fleming BBC News
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Visitors to Rwanda are often blown away to find a country where things seem to work efficiently. It is neat and tidy with lush green views - and the wi-fi is good in the capital, Kigali.
Everyone tends to pay their taxes; services are reliable; the roads are safe - the government calls it "one of the world's safest nations".
Take the pandemic for example. Rwanda did not hesitate to take coronavirus by the horns: lockdowns were implemented quickly and enforced strictly. Today more than 60% of the population is vaccinated - something the British Medical Journal calls a feat "in a continent that is a Covid-19 vaccine desert".
But underlying this compliance and Kigali's landscaped flower beds is a collective fear.
Walk into a bar and try to start up a controversial debate, and you will be shut down - and there is every likelihood your behaviour will be reported to the authorities.
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Spying on neighbours is common in Rwanda - even in bars
Those deemed a real threat will be dealt with harshly.
"It does looks like the Switzerland of Africa but it is an extremely repressive and frightening country," Michela Wrong, author of a recent book on Rwanda called Do Not Disturb, told the BBC.
On the last Saturday of every month, everyone gets together in their neighbourhoods to do a collective clean-up - roads are swept, rubbish collected. It is called Umuganda, which in Kinyarwanda means "Community Work".
One Rwandan, who asked not to be named, explains there is no law that forces people to attend the Umuganda - but there is a fear you will gain a reputation, that someone will report you, that your name will be logged as a troublemaker.
Driving school and languages classes
Any camp that asylum seekers are sent to under the new UK deal is likely to be a well-organised affair - not the refugee camps you sometimes see with tents or plastic sheeting tacked on to thorns.
The country, which has a population of 13 million, has already taken in more than 900 African asylum seekers from Libya since 2019 - under a deal with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the African Union (AU).
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The UN-run Gashora site has permanent structures - and many of those who have come from Libya have moved on
They have been housed at Gashora, about 60km (40 miles) from Kigali. The UNHCR says it is not a refugee camp, but an Emergency Transit Mechanism - and more than half of them have already been relocated to Sweden, Canada, Norway, France, and Belgium.
The UN site, which has permanent structures, aims to teach those who suffered appalling conditions in Libyan camps, the skills to help them in their new life. The camp has a driving school and offers language classes, amongst other things.
But when Denmark announced last year that was planning a similar deal to the one the UK has just launched, the AU hit out.
"Such attempts to stem out migration from Africa to Europe is xenophobic and completely unacceptable," it said last August.
Africa already shouldered 85% of the world's refugees "often in protracted situations, whereas only 15% are hosted by developed countries", it said.
Wrong called it a "cynical and amoral deal".
"It's all about sending a deterrent to asylum seekers… anyone who is trying to flee repression in Africa is going to be horrified at being sent to Rwanda," she said.
Unlike the UNHCR project, details being released of the UK scheme suggest asylum seekers would be in Rwanda for longer - "so that they can resettle and thrive", as the home secretary put it.
It is not clear how many people Rwanda is expecting to accept, given it is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa but UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would take "tens of thousands in the years ahead".
Out of Kigali, Wrong says it is a "poor agrarian society where every inch of fertile land is being cultivated and which doesn't really have room to take refugees".
YouTubers prosecuted
No-one expects much opposition at home to the move - as critics of 64-year-old Paul Kagame, who led the rebel forces which ended the 1994 genocide and has been president since 2000, tend to regret it.
Last month, Human Rights Watch issued a report about the prosecution over the last year of at least eight YouTubers considered to be critical of the government. One, who filmed and criticised soldiers forcefully expelling residents during a slum clearance, has been sentenced to seven years in jail.
Critics who flee the country have been pursued and assassinated by Rwandan agents in exile - or in the case of Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who saved the lives of more than 1,000 people during the genocide and on which the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda was based, put on trial.
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Paul Rusesabagina, who was played by Don Cheadle in the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda, is serving a 25-year sentence
After the genocide - in which 800,000 people were killed - Rusesabagina became a Belgian citizen and used his fame to speak out against what he said was President Kagame's repressive rule.
His daughter, Carine Kanimba, told the BBC it showed Rwanda had zero respect for human rights: "Rwanda is a dictatorship, there is no freedom of speech, there is no democracy. In the last election the president won the elections by 99%, which tells you this is not a democracy.
"I don't understand why the British government would decide to send vulnerable people to a country that is known to oppress its own people."
A Conservative love affair
The reason perhaps lies at the door of Mr Kagame, who stands more than 6ft, is a charismatic, Arsenal football club-loving, driven man. Many Western leaders - those who may feel the guilt of not doing more to stop the genocide that defines Rwanda for many outsiders - are enamoured by him.
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President Kagame was at the official opening of the Kicukiro Oval in 2017
"He's very good at identifying the issues that keep Western leaders awake at night and presenting them with a solution which seems to be effective and cut-price," says Wrong, pointing to how Rwandan troops were sent to Mozambique last year to deal with a jihadist insurgency.
Last year, Mr Kagame said he was offering refugee centres on "humanitarian grounds". One of Rwanda's few opposition parties has said it is all about money.
Western nations are impressed by Rwanda's rapid economic development since the genocide and by the fact corruption appears not to be an issue - though donors do issue human rights warnings.
The former development minister organised for MPs to fly out each August to work on development projects - and coach cricket.
A cricket charity linked to the project began raising funds and a few years ago the state-of the art Gahanga Cricket Stadium, also known as the Kicukiro Oval, was opened just outside Kigali.
Some see the asylum-seeker deal as part of a sophisticated strategy to improve Rwanda's image, as the country gears up to host the Commonwealth summit this June.
But Rwanda's government spokesperson dismissed its critics, saying no-one was persecuted in Rwanda for having an opinion
"We know the kind of situations that people from countries like that have been through and this is a place where they will be safe, they will be protected and can live dignified lives and have an opportunity to develop their talents," Yolande Makolo told the BBC.
The number of people crossing the English Channel has risen sharply this year. PHOTO | GETTY IMAGES
Kigali.Rwanda has inked a multi-million-dollar deal with Britain to host asylum-seekers and migrants to the UK, the East African country announced Thursday, as part of the British government's bid to crack down on illegal migration.
"Rwanda welcomes this partnership with the United Kingdom to host asylum seekers and migrants, and offer them legal pathways to residence" in the African nation, Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta said in a statement released during a visit by British Home Secretary Priti Patel.
The announcement came hours before a scheduled speech by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlining his government's plan to tackle illegal migration and small boat crossings of the Channel.
Johnson was elected partly on promises to curb illegal immigration, but his term has so far been marked by record numbers of Channel crossings.
The deal with Rwanda will be funded by the UK to the tune of up to 120 million pounds ($157 million, 144 million euros), with migrants "integrated into communities across the country," according to the statement released by Kigali.
"This is about ensuring that people are protected, respected, and empowered to further their own ambitions and settle permanently in Rwanda if they choose," said Biruta.
It has been reported previously that the UK hopes to outsource the processing of migrants to countries such as Ghana and Rwanda.
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"Hate Cannot Drive Out Hate. Only Love Can Do That", Dr. Martin Luther King.
Boris Johnson veut envoyer au Rwanda les migrants de toutes origines expulsés du sol britannique
Le gouvernement britannique et le Rwanda ont annoncé s'être entendu pour que le Royaume-Uni puisse diriger les migrants arrivés sur son sol vers le pays africain. Si Boris Johnson voit dans le procédé une "solution" pour lutter contre l'immigration illégale, en attendant de pouvoir traiter les demandes d'asile, il doit affronter l'indignation des ONG et de la classe politique.
Des demandeurs d'asile arrivant au Royaume-Uni vont être envoyés au Rwanda, selon un accord controversé annoncé jeudi avec lequel le gouvernement de Boris Johnson espère dissuader les traversées illégales de la Manche qui ont atteint des records.
Ce projet suscite des réactions scandalisées, des organisations de défense des droits de l'homme dénonçant son "inhumanité", tandis que l'opposition a jugé que le Premier ministre britannique tentait de détourner l'attention après avoir reçu une amende pour une fête d'anniversaire en plein confinement.
Alors que le dirigeant conservateur avait promis de contrôler l'immigration, un des sujets clés dans la campagne du Brexit, le nombre de clandestins traversant la Manche a triplé en 2021. 28.500 personnes ont effectué ces périlleuses traversées durant cette année, contre 8466 en 2020... et seulement 299 en 2018, selon des chiffres du ministère de l'Intérieur.
Un projet chiffré à 144 millions d'euros
Lors d'un discours prononcé ce jeudi dans le Kent, à l'aéroport de Lydd, le Premier ministre Boris Johnson s'est expliqué, comme le montre ici Sky News.
"Notre accord avec le Rwanda est une partie essentielle de la solution, mais ce n'est pas toute la solution. C'est l'une des nombreuses étapes à accomplir pour régler le problème", a-t-il déclaré.
Désireux de regagner en popularité et séduire ses électeurs, Boris Johnson et son gouvernement cherchent depuis des mois - "neuf mois", a précisé le chef du gouvernement dans le Kent - à conclure des accords avec des pays tiers où envoyer les migrants en attendant de traiter leur dossier. Évoqué, le Ghana a fermement nié en janvier être en discussion avec le Royaume-Uni sur le sujet. Un accord a donc finalement été annoncé jeudi avec le Rwanda, ou s'est rendue la ministre britannique de l'Intérieur Priti Patel.
"Le Rwanda se réjouit de ce partenariat avec le Royaume-Uni pour accueillir des demandeurs d'asile et des migrants, et leur offrir des voies légales pour vivre" dans ce pays d'Afrique de l'Est, a déclaré dans un communiqué le ministre rwandais des Affaires étrangères, Vincent Biruta. Londres financera dans un premier temps le dispositif à hauteur de 120 millions de livres sterling (144 millions d'euros).
Les ONG scandalisées, Johnson tente de leur répondre
Mais c'est peu dire que l'annonce ne fait pas l'unanimité. Les ONG, tout d'abord, sont vent debout. Steve Valdez-Symonds, directeur des droits des réfugiés et des migrants d'Amnesty International Royaume-Uni, a dénoncé "une idée scandaleusement mal conçue" qui "fera souffrir tout en gaspillant d'énormes sommes d'argent public", soulignant aussi le "bilan lamentable en matière de droits humains" de la nation africaine. Pour le directeur général de Refugee Action, Tim Naor Hilton, c'est une "manière lâche, barbare et inhumaine de traiter les personnes fuyant la persécution et la guerre".
Toujours dans le Kent, Boris Johnson a voulu répondre à ces inquiétudes humanitaires quant à la destination, assurant que le Rwanda avait "totalement changé" au cours des dernières décennies.
"Nous nous assurons de pouvoir avoir la haute confiance dans la manière dont ces gens seront reçus", a-t-il promis.
Il a même affirmé que le Rwanda était désormais "l'un des pays les plus sûrs au monde".
Tollé chez les politiques
Mais dans le chapitre des critiques soulevées par l'accord, la classe politique n'est pas en reste. L'opposition, travaillistes en tête, a fustigé "l'inhumanité" du projet et certains conservateurs eux-mêmes expriment leurs doutes. Ainsi, le député Tobias Ellwood a estimé sur la BBC qu'il s'agit d'une "énorme tentative de détourner l'attention" des déboires de Boris Johnson dans le Partygate.
Au plan national comme en matière de politique extérieure, Boris Johnson ne sort décidément plus des controverses.
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"Hate Cannot Drive Out Hate. Only Love Can Do That", Dr. Martin Luther King.
Scandale de Boris Johnson plus ridicule que son prédécesseur Tony Blair officiellement Conseiller mais en réalité Patron de Kagame depuis 1994. Tout cela au dos et au mépris de la population du Rwanda et de tous les vrais africains.
Rwanda, Juvénal Habyarimana: la ligne de crête de sa trajectoire. Mémoires du Colonel Laurent Serubuga
Il parle de la mort de Habyarimana à qui les Rwandais devaient la Paix et la Prospérité et qui avait dédié sa vie au peuple rwandais. Son assassinat dans le ciel de Kigali alors qu'il rentrait de Dar es Salam où il avait participé à un sommet des chefs d'Etat, a déclenché un cataclysme au sein de la population rwandaise et l'avilissement généralisé de toute une région. Sa disparition a entraîné un chaos dans lequel plusieurs milliers de ses compatriotes ont perdu la vie.
Malheureusement, vingt-huit ans après, cet ignoble attentat semble avoir passé dans l'oubli malgré ses abominables conséquences.
Habyarimana s'est toujours s'est toujours à la Paix et à l'unité de toutes les composantes de la Nation, qualités qu'il tire de sa formation et de son éducation chrétienne.
Dans son livre, le Colonel Laurent SERUBUGA évoque les manœuvres sordides ayant conduit à la chute du régime du Président Habyarimana après le lâche attentat dont il a été victime.
Le Président Habyarimana fut un homme politique intègre et aimé, trahi par les siens, abandonné par ses pairs et sacrifié à l'autel des intérêts géopolitiques de ses anciens admirateurs.
