In the last almost 30 years, we’ve welcomed a lot of refuge… - Yolande Makolo

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In the last almost 30 years, we’ve welcomed a lot of refugees to Rwanda. We have over 130,000 refugees who live here, mostly Congolese and Burundians, and in smaller numbers people from elsewhere on the continent and beyond, “We are not new to this kind of situation where people are coming in seeking safety and opportunity. We have we partnered with the UNHCR and the African Union to evacuate migrants, mostly Africans, who were stuck in Libya when the war started,”

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Yolande Makolo, is a Rwandan women born to a congolese father of the Luba ethnic group from Kassai (DRC) and a Rwandan Mother, Yolanda Makolo, sister of Yvonne Makolo, patron of the Rwandair Airline, is one of the influential women who rose through the ranks within the establishment Rwandan She a currently Rwanda government spokesperson.

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The UK-Rwanda partnership is seen as a model that can salvage thousands of young people, men, women and children from making desperate journeys across seas looking for safety as asylum seekers or economic opportunities.

We want to offer both [safety and economic opportunities] here and we want to do it in a way that makes sense and corrects the imbalance in opportunities between the global south and the north,” she said, adding that it would also remove the perception that opportunities are in the north.

We’re not the only country facing these challenges,” she said, adding that the government is working with partners, including the UK, to address these issues and with the right investments in the program, the challenges will be addressed over the next five years.

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