Refugees Evacuated From Libya Arrive in Rwanda

A group of 66 refugees evacuated from Libya under a UNHCR-African Union deal landed in Rwanda on September 26, according to the Government of Rwanda. The refugees have been moved to Rwanda from Libya under a deal struck between the Rwandan government, the UNHCR and the African Union on September 10. The 66 refugees are the first group to arrive in Rwanda out of a group of 500 refugees being held in detention centres in Libya due to be evacuated under the deal, the UNHCR said. The organisation said in a September 10 statement they had evacuated more than 4,400 refugees and asylum-seekers out of Libya to other countries since 2017, including 2,900 through Niger and 425 to European countries through Romania. Videos filmed by Charlie Yaxley, the UNHCR Global Spokesperson for Africa and the Mediterranean/Libya, show the refugees disembarking at the airport in Kigali, Rwanda. Credit: Charlie Yaxley/UNHCR via Storyful

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