The UK is paying Rwanda about $150 million to process and house migrants who have come to UK shores by crossing the English Channel. Under President Paul Kagama, Rwanda is considered to be a dictatorship where dissent is met with arrest and often death. Host Marco Werman speaks with Theogene Rudasingwa who was Rwanda’s ambassador to the US and also Kagame’s chief of staff until he left and moved to the US in 2005.
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