Local and international media have reported that the first UK asylum seeker arrived in Rwanda. He was reported to be of African origin. He personally requested for relocation to Rwanda.

The UK Business Secretary, Kemi Badenoch, told the media that she knew Rwanda as a holiday destination with many people going there. This put to shame critics who have been flooding the UK media with the narrative that Rwanda is not a safe country.

Badenoch noted that migrants are volunteering to pack their bags and head to the holiday destination of Kigali, adding that, "we need to get away from a lot of the myths about this African country which is actually a leader on the continent in terms of what it is been able to achieve both economically and around law and order."

Since April 2022, when the governments of the UK and Rwanda announced a new Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP), the UK media began a coordinated campaign against Rwanda, with biased narratives of the country being “undemocratic, lack of human rights and generally being unsafe” for UK asylum seekers relocation.

UK media editors filed reports based on hearsay without setting foot in Rwanda, as well as basing their reporting on biased sources. It looked more of a political conspiracy meant to tarnish the image of Rwanda, sounding drums that call on the UK government to abandon the asylum seekers partnership, and to the international community to isolate Rwanda.

Now that their project has failed flat, can the UK media editors bite their humble pie and embark on reporting professionally by traveling to Kigali to assess the safety of asylum seekers?

This time, instead of relying on what others told them, the editors will interview the asylum seekers themselves to understand the reality about their safety.

Rwanda and UK partnered to stop a dangerous global migration crisis that has not been solved through conventional means. Critics to the new and innovative approach never provided any other alternative.

The failure of the UK media campaign to stop their government from relocating asylum seekers to Rwanda is clear evidence that the truth prevailed; first of all on the validity of the deal, and secondly, on the safety of asylum seekers in Rwanda.

Rwanda is a small country in terms of geographical size, but its leadership has a big mind and a big heart. Unlike the genocidal regime that denied thousands of refugees to return home, claiming that the country is as full as a glass of water, the RPF-led government of Rwanda has opened its doors to all asylum seekers and refugees irrespective of their origin. The little that Rwanda has can be shared to avert human suffering. This is the reason why some profit minded souls should take time to understand how Rwanda works.

Rwanda is commonly referred to as a country of a thousand hills. But again, today, it is also known as a country with a thousand solutions.

The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi that befell the country was stopped by Rwandans, at a time when the international community that had all the means to do so looked aside.

This was a big lesson for the country; to always take the lead to solve her own problems and also be there for others in time of critical need.

It is not the first time that Rwanda has employed an unconventional approach to solve big challenges.

After the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, over 120,000 genocide suspects crowded in prisons that were built for less numbers and trying them using the classic judicial system, their cases would take hundreds of years.

Rwanda resorted to a traditional judicial process known as “Gacaca”, a system that was not understood by the West and highly criticized through their media. Gacaca courts speeded up the cases, decongested the prisons, and served to promote reconciliation by providing a means for victims to learn the truth about the death of their family members. Same story as the UK-Rwanda partnership which is also unconventional.

Rwanda is a country that has registered tremendous progress against all odds. In a period of 30 years, through strategically thinking out of the box to make sense where seems to be no sense at all, so much has been achieved. Only big minds with “Ubuntu” can understand the driving force behind Rwanda’s unique success story.

Hundreds of asylum seekers go through difficult routes in the Sahara Desert and remote border areas. One of the primary objectives of the Rwanda-UK asylum seekers deal is to stop such unfortunate human suffering and deaths. If the UK media worked in the interest of stopping this kind of human misery, it would say thank you to Rwanda for your generous love for humanity and being part of the solution to stop the dangerous boats.