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Nearly 70 migrants who have been stuck in detention centers in Libya have arrived in Rwanda overnight. They are the first of 500 who will be settled there after their plans to go to Europe failed. The UN refugee agency - UNHCR - says many of this first wave are unaccompanied children and vulnerable people.

'Many of them were held in detention centres in Libya where they faced awful conditions and human rights abuses for months if not years' Charlie Yaxley from UNHCR told 大象传媒 Newsday's Ben James .

(Photo: Rwanda UNHCR senior protection officer Zahra Mirghani welcoming the first arrival of refugees and asylum seekers from Libya at the Kigali international airport Credit: Cyril Ndegeya/ Rwanda's Ministry of Emergency Management (MINEMA) / AFP)