A hostel refurbished using millions in British taxpayers’ money as part of the UK’s failed Rwanda scheme will be repurposed and used by the US as part of the country’s new deportation deal with Donald Trump.

Sources in Rwanda told The i Paper that the Hope Hostel in the capital, Kigali, will now be used as an administrative building to oversee the implementation of the US agreement.

Rwanda has agreed to accept 250 migrants deported from the US under Trump’s mass removal programme.

The i Paper understands that the Hope Hostel will not be used to house people deported from the US in the long run, as new accommodation is being built. However, it will function as an administrative hub once the scheme is up and running, sources said.

So far one man originally from Iraq and sent from the

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