WE REACT | WHY U.K.'S RWANDA ASYLUM DEAL IS HARMFUL

After overcoming multiple obstacles, the United Kingdom will begin deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda within several weeks. Housing the first 300 deportees in the African state may cost the UK more than 600 million pounds.

Human-right organisations have criticised the scheme as a violation of human rights, while the UK Supreme Court ruled in November that the initiative is ‘unlawful’ and raised questions about the safety of deportees.

Here, African Stream reacts to two videos. One is of a British reporter from The Sun tabloid newspaper visiting a Rwandan hostel set to receive deportees. Another is of a British minister defending the scheme despite admitting to not knowing the difference between Rwanda and Congo.