New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- Rwanda has said it is suing the United Kingdom to seek payments over an aborted, controversial migrant deal under which the East African nation was to host deported asylum seekers from the European country.

Rwanda announced on Tuesday that it had filed proceedings with the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration.

The migrant deal entered into force on April 25, 2024. In July 2024, shortly after taking office, the UK's new Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that the deal was "dead and buried."

"He did so without prior notice to Rwanda, contrary to the spirit of the partnership that had always characterized the agreement," the Rwandan government said in a statement.

Under the deal, signed with former Prime Mi...