KIGALI, Aug. 6– Rwanda, in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), received 177 asylum seekers evacuated from Libya on Wednesday, according to the Rwandan Ministry in charge of Emergency Management.
The new arrivals include individuals from Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia and South Sudan, the ministry said in a social media post.
They will be temporarily hosted at the Gashora transit center in eastern Rwanda’s Bugesera District, where they will wait for processing before relocating to other countries, according to the ministry.
The latest group brings the total number of people evacuated to Rwanda since 2019 to over 3,000, of whom 2,681 have already been resettled in third countries, the ministry said.
The evacuation is in line with a 2019 memorandum of understanding Rwanda signed with the UNHCR and the African Union, under which a transit mechanism was established to provide lifesaving protection, assistance, and long-term solutions to refugees trapped in Libya through a temporary evacuation to Rwanda. (Namibia Daily News / Xinhua)
