“The group includes children and survivors of violence and torture,” the agency said in a statement released on social media on Wednesday.
The agreement signed in September 2019 came after repeated allegations of dire conditions for refugees and asylum seekers in Libya’s detention centers, including routine abuse, lack of medical care, and insufficient food.
“We have been desperately searching for solutions for those people,” said Cosmas Chanda, UNHCR’s representative to the AU, at a news conference in Addis Ababa, the seat of the pan-African body.
The Rwandan government had said it was prepared to take in as many as 30,000 Africans from Libya. The plan is for the process to unfold in batches of 500 people to prevent the country from becoming overwhelmed.
