The UNHCR has helped evacuate 132 asylum seekers from Libya to Rwanda. The United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday announced the arrival of asylum seekers from Libya to Rwanda. In a statement, the refugee body said the asylum seekers were from the Horn of Africa. "UNHCR today [Tuesday] helped evacuate 132 vulnerable asylum seekers from Libya to the Emergency Transit Centre in Rwanda – the 9th such flight of its kind. WHO said, since then, Rwanda had received more than 900 asylum seekers, with 67% of them resettled to third countries.

Source: Libya Today June 01, 2022 15:36 UTC