Up to 176 refugees and asylum seekers from Libya arrived in Rwanda on Friday, the Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management confirmed in a statement obtained by APA in Kigali.
The refugees who were received in the early hours at Kigali International Airport have been taken to Gashora Transit camp where they will settle.
They included 34 females and 142 males.
Eritreans made up a bigger part of the refugees as they were 102 followed by 62 Sudanese.
Five are from Somalia while 4 and 3 come from South Sudan and Ethiopia respectively.
Rwanda has so far received a total of 824 refugees and asylum seekers from eight African countries namely Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon.
However, only 362 including the latest batch will be remaining in the Gashora transit camp while others have been resettled in third countries.
Up to now, 134 have been resettled in Sweden, 129 in Canada, 107 in Norway as France and Belgium host 66 and 26 of them respectively.
These refugees come to Rwanda under an agreement between the African Union and Rwanda in 2019, which was renewed in early November 2021.
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