{"id":235229,"date":"2026-06-03T16:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/rwanda-why-egyptian-judge-dissented-in-rwanda-uk-migration-case\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:46:07","slug":"rwanda-why-egyptian-judge-dissented-in-rwanda-uk-migration-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/rwanda-why-egyptian-judge-dissented-in-rwanda-uk-migration-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda: Why Egyptian Judge Dissented in Rwanda-UK Migration Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">An Egyptian judge on a three-member panel issued a dissenting opinion as the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ruled that the United Kingdom does not have to pay Rwanda more than \u00a3100 million in compensation over the cancelled migrant relocation deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/article\/34236\/news\/law\/rwanda-challengesuks-common-sense-claim-on-unpaid-medp-funds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rwanda challenges UK&#8217;s &#8216;common sense&#8217; claim on unpaid MEDP funds<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The case, heard in March, concerned the Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP), a bilateral agreement signed in 2024 to allow the UK to relocate some&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606030053.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian judge on a three-member panel issued a dissenting opinion as the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ruled that the United Kingdom does not have to pay Rwanda more than \u00a3100 million in compensation over the cancelled migrant relocation deal. ALSO READ: Rwanda challenges UK&#8217;s &#8216;common sense&#8217; claim on unpaid MEDP funds The case, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":235230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,6683,54522,415,6639,7511,6486,257,4702,54523,254],"class_list":["post-235229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-dissented","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptian","tag-judge","tag-migration","tag-news","tag-rwanda","tag-rwandauk","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}