KAMPALA: Uganda is considering a request from Israel to take in 500 migrants from Eritrea and Sudan, a minister said on Friday, the first time the East African nation has acknowledged it is in talks over such a deal.
About 4,000 migrants have left Israel for Rwanda and Uganda since 2013 under a voluntary program but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under pressure from his right-wing voter base to expel thousands more. In January, Israel started handing out notices to male migrants from Eritrea and Sudan, giving them three months to take the voluntary deal with a plane ticket and $3,500 or risk being thrown in jail.
The government said from April it would start forced deportations.
Uganda may take migrants from Israel
Updated 14 April 2018
Uganda may take migrants from Israel
- 4,000 migrants have left Israel for Rwanda and Uganda since 2013
- Israel started handing out notices to male migrants from Eritrea and Sudan
