Rwanda has said it will accept up to 250 migrants from the US in a deal agreed with President Donald Trump's administration. Under the scheme the deportees would be given "workforce training, health care, and accommodation to jump start their lives in Rwanda", government spokesperson Yolande Makole confirmed to the BBC.

As many as 250 migrants may be deported to Rwanda under the plan, as part of Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

Rwanda has agreed to accept up to 250 deportees from the United States under the Trump administration's third-country deportation program.