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Rwanda doesn’t need to be paid to do a humanitarian act.

— Germaine Kamayirese

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Rwanda has not taken funds from Europe or any other country to accommodate the refugees.

Rwanda remains committed to taking in up to 30,000 African refugees but only if they are willing to be repatriated.

I dismiss reports that Rwanda will in return receive money from Europe for taking in the refugees.

Rwanda made the humanitarian commitment to bring in the refugees as part of an African solution to an African problem.

I also dismiss critics who say that Rwanda, which still has a considerable percentage of people living in poverty, has the resources to sustain refugees from other parts of the continent.

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