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Uganda has signed a deal with the United States to accept people from other countries who have been refused asylum in America but don’t want to go back to their home countries.
Business Day reports that the Ugandan Minister of Foreign Affairs announced the agreement on Thursday. The arrangement comes as President Donald Trump of the US pushes ahead to deport millions of people who entered America illegally. The US is looking for other countries to send them to.
Vincent Bagiire Waiswa, a senior official at Uganda’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said, “This is a temporary arrangement with conditions including that individuals with criminal records and unaccompanied minors will not be accepted.
He also said that Uganda would prefer to take in African people under this scheme.
The clarification came after some confusion about Uganda’s position. Just one day earlier, another Ugandan foreign affairs official had denied reports in American media that the country had agreed to accept deportees.
