Reports suggest that the UK may send asylum seekers to Ghana, Nigeria, Namibia, Morocco and Niger. A project considered by former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The UK government is talking to five countries about a project similar to the one in Rwanda, where asylum seekers are sent by plane to other countries to apply for asylum, reports Time. In April 2022, London signed an agreement with Kigali to send people crossing the Channel “illegally”, either dinghy or hiding in trucks, to Rwanda.

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According to the former British prime minister, Rwanda will be responsible for migrants sent there, and migrants will be “entitled to full protection under Rwandan law”, with equal access to jobs and services. Several months later, this policy was condemned by the English courts. In June, a British appeals court banned deportations, arguing that Rwanda was “not a safe third country”. Boris Johnson’s successor, Rishi Sunak, expressed disapproval and announced that he would go to the Supreme Court.

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Sunak’s official spokesman assured that the government is confident in its ability to win its next legal battle. “Like other European countries, we generally look at expanding migration partnerships to other countries. But I will not go into the identities of these countries,” the prime minister’s spokesman responded to a question about negotiations with Morocco and four other countries on similar projects. .