In the next few weeks, the government in Rwanda intends to take in the first 500 refugees who are to be flown from Libya to the East African micro-state. This was agreed by the government, the African Union and the UN Refugee Agency. Most came from Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan. The government has offered space for 30,000 people, said spokesman for the UN Refugee Agency Babar Baloch.
The UN refugee agency will help Rwanda to examine asylum applications. Recognized refugees should be relocated to third countries. Some are also to be granted right of residence in Rwanda. Refused asylum seekers, according to the UN Refugee Agency, get help to return to their home countries. Refugees are recognized asylum seekers. The UNO refugee agency has claimed to have rescued more than 4,400 refugees from Libya since 2017.
The torture camps in Libya are inhumane
The UN Refugee Agency estimates the number of refugees and asylum seekers in civil war Libya at 50,000. Many of them come from African countries and they want to get to Europe via the Mediterranean coast of Libya. Those who are picked up by Libyan authorities or prevented from escaping to Europe by the Coast Guard come to detention centers.
According to the United Nations, inhumane conditions prevail there. In the camps about 5000 people should be penned. For this an unknown number has fallen into the hands of human smugglers who torture people and blackmail their families with the images. (Read a report on the situation on site).