The UN has emphasized how deadly the Mediterranean route is for migrants. Rwanda is willing to take in 30,000 migrants from Libya and InfoMigrants reports on discriminatory practices against refugees who are looking for an apartment. This and more in today's roundup.
Folloing the CNN report that showed footage of migrants being sold off as slaves in Libya, the Rwandan government announced it is willing to take in 30,000 migrants stuck in Libya.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have launched the 'Become the Light' campaign to bring light and solar energy to refugee camps.
American storyteller and human rights advocate Clemantine Wamariya fled the genocide in Rwanda when she was six years old. In Rome, she talked with university students and migrants about her experiences.
Atrocities and killings of innocent people marked the year of 1994 in Rwanda. The country’s majority Hutu population planned to kill the minority Tutsi population and anyone who opposed those genocidal intentions. The numbers of victims of the dreadful 100-day-long conflict in various sources differ from 500,000 to almost two million victims. What's more, almost two million people were forced to leave the country because of the warfare.