285 African asylum seekers relocated as new group arrives in Rwanda
Sweden, Canada, Norway lead countries taking asylum seekers
2021-07-17 10:13:27
KIGALI, Rwanda
At least 285 asylum seekers who were stranded in Libya and hosted in Rwanda have been relocated to third countries, the Rwandan government said Friday.
It comes as a new group of 133 asylum seekers arrived in the East African country.
Upon arrival early Friday, the sixth group was subjected to coronavirus tests before being sent to the Gashora Emergency Transit Centre in eastern Rwanda.
The evacuated asylum seekers, including women and children, are from Eritrea, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan.
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Series of earthquakes on DRC-Rwanda border stoke fears of second volcanic eruption
A series of earthquakes on the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda have stoked fears that the Nyiragongo volcano close to the area would erupt again three days after the first eruption. The volcano started to erupt on Saturday, spewing lava that headed towards the border with Rwanda, and stopped on Sunday morning, leaving dozens of people killed and thousands displaced. An earthquake on the border of Congo and Rwanda on Tuesday measured 5.3 magnitudes by the Rwandan Seismic Monitor and the strongest of more than 100 tremors that have followed Saturday s eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano destroyed several buildings in the DRC s eastern city of Goma.