Recently, at the United Nations Emergency Transit Centre by a tranquil lake in the southern part of Rwanda, the sobs of a group of female refugees from Ethiopia shattered the atmosphere of tranquility.
A translator for the UNHCR explained: "They fled from Libya to Rwanda, but they didn't want to live here either. ”
"They may want to find a place to stay in Europe, or somewhere else." UNHCR spokesman vile canani in Rwanda also pointed out that these migrants suffer from PTSD.
In the camps, Rwanda hosts 189 asylum seekers from Libya last month, and another 120 will arrive in the tiny Central African country next month.
These include single mothers, unaccompanied children and families from the Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia. They have been granted asylum-seeker status during the period when the institution determines whether they are refugees or not.
In 1994, more than 2 million citizens in Rwanda were displaced after a genocidal massacre. In September, Rwanda signed an agreement with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to help resettle refugees detained when they tried to reach Europe and called on other countries to follow Rwanda's example.
The hard-working migrants sobbed as they talked about their experiences in underground cells in Libya. They survived an attempt to cross the Mediterranean, but their ship was intercepted by the Coast Guard and sent back to North Africa.
Abdullah Rodwan, an 18-year-old young man from the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, said: "Rwanda is not like Libya, but all of us need to take the first step." In 2016, he fled Sudan with 300 young men. Many died in the desert or at sea, he said.
Rodvin said he was anxious to get news about where he might be placed.
"I've heard people say we might have a chance to live in Africa, but you know, Africa today may be good, but tomorrow it's easy to get worse. That's why we need a better life. ”
Text/Jingwen Fang
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