The 13th batch of 150 asylum seekers stranded in Libya arrived in Rwanda after failure to reach Europe, an authoritative source confirmed to APA Friday in Kigali.
They are joining refugees and asylum seekers Rwanda has welcomed in the previous 12 batches.
The arrival of asylum seekers from Libya is part of the agreement signed in September 2019 between Rwanda with the African Union (AU) and the UN refugees agency (UNHCR) to host refugees stranded in Libya.
Rwanda made the commitment to host refugees from Libya in 2017 following revelations that thousands of people from across Africa were stranded in the country after their failure to reach Europe and subjected to slavery.
Rwanda committed to receiving 500 refugees at the first of whom a group of 66 African refugees and asylum-seekers from Libya arrived in Rwanda at the end of September 2019 in the first batch aboard the airplane of Buraq Air.
As of today, 1,500 individuals, excluding the latest batch, have been received and 900 among them were resettled to third countries.
Refugees and asylum seekers hosted at the camp hail from different countries including Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon.
All the previous batches were all accommodated at Gashora transit camp in Bugesera district which previously hosted thousands of Burundian refugees since 2015 before they were relocated to other sites.
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