Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo told The Associated Press in a statement that the East African country would accept up to 250 deportees from the US, with “the ability to approve each individual proposed for resettlement” under the agreement.

Rwanda on Tuesday agreed to accept hundreds of U.S.-deported migrants as part of a broad effort by the Trump administration to get African nations to take in deportees.

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