Paul Kagame: Despot who turned Rwanda into the Switzerland of Africa

At first glance, Rwanda — a country with one of the bloodiest modern histories in the world — may seem a strange place to send vulnerable migrants hoping to start new lives as refugees in the UK.

It certainly is not the welcome the Afghans who fled Kabul when it fell to the Taliban last year would have been expecting. And if the experiment to process asylum applications there follows the results of similar deals that have been struck with Israel and Denmark, they will flee within hours of landing.

“Whatever they tell you, I have been in that unit and the conditions are awful. They [asylum seekers] will abscond and be off across Uganda into Sudan and then off to Libya. Or they will