Editing Foreign relations of Rwanda (section)

==Accepting refugees==
Rwanda has accepted tens of thousands of refugees from neighboring African countries like [[Burundi]], the [[Democratic Republic of Congo]], [[Eritrea]], [[Somalia]] and [[South Sudan]].<ref name="nyt">{{Cite news |last=Dahir |first=Abdi Latif |date=2022-10-09 |title=The West Doesn't Want More Migrants. But Rwanda Will Take Them. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/world/africa/migration-crisis-rwanda.html |access-date=2022-10-10 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> It has also accepted hundreds of African refugees from Israel and Afghan schoolgirls.<ref name="nyt"/>

As of 2015, Rwanda hosted 75,000 Burundian refugees according to UNHCR. When credible reports surfaced that Rwanda recruited and trained Burundi refugees including children to remove Burundian President Nkurunziza, Rwanda announced to relocate Burundian refugees to third countries.<ref>{{cite news |last=Eric Topona |title=Rwanda to relocate Burundian refugees | date=12 February 2016 |language=en-GB |work=Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com) |url=https://www.dw.com/en/rwanda-to-relocate-burundian-refugees/a-19042121 |access-date=2022-10-10}}</ref>

Since September 2019, Rwanda has also taken in Libyan refugees and asylum-seekers, operating a refugee center at [[Gashora]], Rwanda, which houses up to 700 refugees from eight African countries (Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon) and is financed by UNHCR until 31 December 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hanson Gandhi Tamfu |date=2021-05-11 |title=Rwanda, the African Union and UNHCR extend agreement to support the emergency evacuation of refugees and asylum-seekers from Libya |url=https://www.unhcr.org/afr/news/latest/2021/11/61862e1e4/rwanda-the-african-union-and-unhcr-extend-agreement-to-support-the-emergency.html |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |language=en}}</ref>

In 2021 Denmark signed a deal to establish an asylum center in Kigali, and since April 2022, the UK has sought to shift its asylum responsibilities, considering Rwanda a safe third country by offering 120 million pounds in economic development programs in return for accepting refugees.<ref name="nyt"/>