Rwanda Receives Over 100 New African Migrants From Libya

Rwandan immigration officers on Thursday, June 13, received 113 refugees and migrants from Libya.

The new arrivals, originating from South Sudan, Eritrea, Sudan, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, and Somalia, are the 18th cohort of migrants who have been deported from the North African country under an emergency transit mechanism of the Rwandan government and the United Nations refugee agency.

Through the mechanism, which was set up in 2019 to support African migrants stranded in Libyan detention…