Rwanda receives first group of refugees from Libya, including baby born in detention
By Reuters
29 September 2019 |
7:40 am
Rwanda has received 66 asylum-seekers that were being held in a Libyan detention centre, the first of a group of 500 to be sent there under a new agreement with the United Nations to help resettle people detained while trying to reach Europe.
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