Britain and Rwanda strike a new treaty in efforts to revive asylum plan blocked by UK courts

By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — The interior ministers of Britain and Rwanda have signed a treaty that aims to revive a plan to send asylum-seekers to the East African country that has been blocked by U.K. courts. British Home Secretary James Cleverly said the legally binding agreement signed on Tuesday with his Rwandan counterpart Vincent Biruta would “address all the issues” raised by the U.K. Supreme Court. Britain’s top court ruled last month that the policy was unlawful. Britain and Rwanda struck a deal last year for some migrants who cross the English Channel to be sent to Rwanda. Britain has already paid Rwanda at least 140 million pounds, about $177 million, but no one has yet been sent there.