{"id":240480,"date":"2026-08-06T19:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/rwanda-receives-nearly-180-asylum-seekers-evacuated-from-libya\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:10:42","slug":"rwanda-receives-nearly-180-asylum-seekers-evacuated-from-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/rwanda-receives-nearly-180-asylum-seekers-evacuated-from-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Receives Nearly 180 Asylum Seekers Evacuated From Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">A total of 177 asylum seekers evacuated from Libya arrived in Rwanda on Wednesday, August 5, under the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM), according to the Ministry in Charge of Emergency Management (MINEMA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><strong>ALSO READ<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/article\/36651\/news\/rwanda\/rwanda-receives-over-170-asylum-seekers-from-libya\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rwanda receives over 170 asylum seekers from Libya<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The latest arrival brings the number of refugees and asylum seekers received by Rwanda under the ETM since September 2019 to more than 3,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The latest group comprises 68 Sudanese, 66 Eritreans, 26 South Sudanese, 15 Ethiopians and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608060045.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 177 asylum seekers evacuated from Libya arrived in Rwanda on Wednesday, August 5, under the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM), according to the Ministry in Charge of Emergency Management (MINEMA). ALSO READ: Rwanda receives over 170 asylum seekers from Libya The latest arrival brings the number of refugees and asylum seekers received by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,7200,6317,4711,892,257,6578,4702,7302,254],"class_list":["post-240480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asylum","tag-evacuated","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-receives","tag-rwanda","tag-seekers","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}