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https://www.rt.com/africa/613746-rwanda-demands-63mln-from-uk/
Rwanda demands $63 million from UK – media
Kigali has requested compensation after the cancelation of an asylum agreement, arguing that Britain has broken mutual trust
Rwanda has requested £50 million ($63.5 million) in compensation from the UK after the British government canceled an asylum agreement, a source familiar with the negotiations told Reuters on Tuesday.
The asylum deal was originally announced in April 2022 under British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government, and involved a five-year agreement for illegal immigrants to be sent to Rwanda from the UK.
However, no flights have taken place since the first one was canceled in June 2022 following intervention from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The scheme was also declared unlawful by the UK’s highest court, which deemed Rwanda unsafe for deportees.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government scrapped the scheme upon taking office in July 2024, with Home Secretary Yvette Cooper stating it had cost taxpayers £700 million. Starmer declared the plan “dead and buried,” asserting that it had “never served as a deterrent” to illegal immigration and would ultimately deport “less than 1%” of those arriving on small boats.
In a post on X on Monday, Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo argued that Britain’s actions had undermined trust. “The UK had asked Rwanda to quietly forego the payment based on the trust and good faith existing between our two nations,” she wrote.
“However, the UK has breached this trust through the unjustified punitive measures to coerce Rwanda into compromising our national security,” Makolo added.
The UK recently paused aid to Rwanda, citing concerns over the African nation’s alleged support for the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The UK is among several Western nations that have accused Kigali of backing the group, a claim Rwanda denies.
According to the National Audit Office (NAO), Britain’s spending watchdog, the asylum deal required the UK to make payments of £50 million to Rwanda in both April this year and next. As of February 2024, the UK had already paid £220 million to the African country.
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i have to wonder how much usaid $$$ went to amtrak during that time, in fact i'm wondering how much dosh went to politico during that same time.. such a cute lil puff piece!
the prayers of a righteous pepe availeth much!
James 5:16
“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
King James Version (KJV)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/05/largest-trade-organization-allegedly-muzzling-conservative-christians/
Largest Trade Organization Under Fire For Allegedly Muzzling Conservative Christians
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is facing legal pushback for allegedly censoring conservative Christian real estate agents for their personal beliefs.
Critics are slamming NAR’s ethics code, specifically Article 10-5, for serving as a “weaponization tool” that’s been used to further conservative Christian “persecution.” Several of these realtors claiming their rights and businesses have been targeted are now pursuing legal action against the NAR or other parties involved.
Virginia realtor and broker Wilson Fauber, Arizona realtor Chad DeVries and Georgia realtor Julie Mauck, all self-professing conservative Christians, have filed lawsuits or have said they intend to file against the NAR, their local realtor associations or individuals who brought ethics complaints against them under the NAR’s Article 10-5.
Fauber has discussed taking legal action against the NAR and the Virginia Association of Realtors (VAR) after they both ruled that he was guilty of “hate speech” for posting a Bible verse with commentary ten years ago on his personal Facebook page.
Fauber served clients and was active in ministry for 44 years until the National Association of Realtors informed him in early 2024 that someone had filed an ethics complaint against him for his Facebook post, citing that it was discriminatory against the LGBT community.
“This originated in 2015 when I reposted and restructured one of Franklin Graham’s posts,” Fauber, 70, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. On Feb. 13, 2015, Fauber reposted Rev. Franklin Graham’s Article that cited the Bible verse Leviticus 18:22, which Fauber said was the “centerpiece of the case.”
The Virginia Realtors conducted a hearing in December, which ruled that Fauber was guilty of violating Article 10-5 of the NAR Ethics code. Fauber and his lawyer Michael Sylvester, with the Founding Freedoms Law Center, filed an appeal which led to a second hearing on Feb. 13. The appeals panel affirmed the original ruling, and their decision is final.
“The sum of this is: a religious realtor is being punished for expressing his faith-based opinions on an important moral issue,” Sylvester told the DCNF.
The VAR deemed Fauber a “discriminator” and he has been “ordered” to “undergo multiple re-education programs,” according to a Founding Freedoms Law Center press release.
The NAR “politely declined” to provide a comment to the DCNF, and the VAR did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
“I’m being told by my trade organization what I can and cannot talk about that’s wrong. And I’m fighting,” Fauber said. “I’m fighting, and I’m going to continue to fight.” Fauber added that he was willing to take the case to the Supreme Court.
I will not stop fighting for the protection of freedom of speech. This includes the freedom to preach and teach the Bible. pic.twitter.com/jlBuRB9wxc
— Wilson L. Fauber (@WilsonFauber) February 22, 2025
“They found me guilty of hate speech, that is wrong. I didn’t discriminate against anyone, and I’m not guilty of hate speech,” Fauber continued. “I’ve not directed my remarks or scriptures towards any individual.”
Fauber argued that the opposite is true. “Hate is being directed toward me because I am a Bible-believing Christian,” Fauber added. “I continue to affirm I believe the Bible from cover to cover.”