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

— Germaine Kamayirese

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

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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