{"id":54017,"date":"2025-04-24T07:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T07:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-receives-over-130-refugees-from-libya\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T07:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T07:20:40","slug":"rwanda-receives-over-130-refugees-from-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-receives-over-130-refugees-from-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda receives over 130 refugees from Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"

The group, received on Wednesday night, marks the 21st cohort of evacuees to arrive in Rwanda from Libya.<\/p>\n

The individuals originate from four countries: 14 from Eritrea, 81 from Sudan, 21 from Ethiopia, and 21 from South Sudan. <\/p>\n

Established in 2019, the Emergency Transit Mechanism is a partnership between the Government of Rwanda, UNHCR, and the African Union. It aims to provide lifesaving protection, assistance, and long-term solutions for vulnerable refugees trapped in Libya by temporarily relocating them to Rwanda while durable resettlement options are pursued.<\/p>\n

In August last year, the Rwandan government, UNHCR, and the African Union Commission (AUC) agreed to extend the ETM program until December 31, 2025.<\/p>\n

In a joint statement issued on August 22, 2024, the three parties reaffirmed their commitment to protecting evacuees and finding lasting solutions for them, while offering a safe haven in Rwanda.<\/p>\n

“The Government of Rwanda reaffirms its unwavering commitment to receive and protect these individuals, as well as others identified as particularly vulnerable and at risk,” the statement read in part.<\/p>\n

The parties also announced that a second addendum to the original Memorandum of Understanding, signed on September 10, 2019, had been adopted. It emphasizes a more transparent selection process for evacuees, ensuring equal opportunities for all potential candidates\u2014regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, gender, age, or any other factor beyond vulnerability.<\/p>\n

The first group of 66 evacuees arrived in Rwanda on September 26, 2019. Since then, a total of 2,760 individuals have been evacuated, with more than 2,100 already resettled in third countries.<\/p>\n

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Rwanda has received 137 refugees and asylum seekers evacuated from Libya under the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM), an agreement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000086307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","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":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","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":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000086307,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gppuaaqwmaao6q4.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gppuaaqwmaao6q4.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gppuaaqwmaao6q4.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gppuaaqwmaao6q4.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gppuaaqwmaao6q4.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gppuaaqwmaao6q4.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000086307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54017"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54017"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}