{"id":40400,"date":"2019-11-25T11:16:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/more-117-refugees-from-libya-flown-to-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T17:46:28","slug":"more-117-refugees-from-libya-flown-to-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/more-117-refugees-from-libya-flown-to-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"More 117 refugees from Libya flown to Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The117 refugees from Libya landed at Kigali International Airport Sunday midnight, a majority of who are women and children from Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Baba Fall, UNHCR&#8217;s Country Representative, thanked Rwanda government for the willingness to receive the refugees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are 117 people that have been restrained to Libya for a long time, leading a miserable life; now that they are in Rwanda their life will change for the best, and for that, we thank Rwanda government,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will be taken to Gashora camp where they will be assisted just as the previous group,\u201d he added<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed explained that the UNHCR had been receiving donations from different countries to support this project, where last week the European Union donated Euros 10 million and Norway donated $ 5.5 million. <\/p>\n<p>Ahmed added that he hopes other countries will follow the example of Rwanda in finding solutions for the refugee problem.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda signed agreements to host refugees stranded in Libya on 10th September 2019 with the African Union (AU) and UNHCR, all 500, following revelations that thousands of people from across Africa were stranded in the country and subjected to slavery after their failure to reach Europe.<\/p>\n<p>As he was officially opening the YouthConneck summit in Kigali where about 10,000 were participating, President Paul Kagame spoke about what motivated Rwanda to host the refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame explained that these refugees have three options whereby Europe can come and choose who they want to take, those chasing to go back home can be facilitated in an orderly manner while the third option is allowing them to stay in Rwanda if they don\u2019t prefer any of the two options mentioned above.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will live like our citizens, we don\u2019t give too much because we don\u2019t have too much but whatever we have, we share and we live decent lives. That is the arrangement under which this thing has been done and anybody can do it, any other country can do it. We just felt we needed to exercise the possibility we had to do things decently and provide a decent life to these people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_60vwUUfE_s\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33551 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/187a0229-727f2.jpg\" alt=\"The117 refugees from Libya landed at Kigali International Airport Sunday midnight\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33552 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/187a0235-a2081.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33553 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/187a0259-6e754.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/187a0388-27df4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33560 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/187a0452-f1784.jpg\" alt=\"These are 117 people that have been restrained to Libya for a long time, leading a miserable life\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33561 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/187a0478-26d7e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33562 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/187a0497-a1e19.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33563 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/187a0508-eb8a7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33564 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/187a0522-aa79d.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda signed agreements to host refugees stranded in Libya on 10th September 2019 with the African Union (AU) and UNHCR,\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33565 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/187a0526-0d4d3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33566 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/187a0533-03e54.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33567 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/187a0546-f87d0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33568 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/187a0555-b93be.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33569 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda Government has received a third batch of 117 refugees from Libya, joining the 66 and123 flown in recently, accommodated in Gashora transit camp, Bugesera district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2942],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-40400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-nicole-kamanzi-m"],"bylines":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi 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