Belgium resettles refugees from Libya
This week 25 refugees from Eritrea and Congo, who got into a deadlock in Libya, arrived in Belgium.
Belgium has answered therewith a call of the UNHCR to receive and protect (resettle) African refugees from Libya in the European Union.
The campaign concerns a group of 25 refugees, mostly families with children, from the Shousha-camp in Tunisia. The refugees originate from Eritrea and DR Congo and lived for longer time in Libya. They fled the country due to the ongoing uprising and could neither return to the civil war-shattered country nor to their country of origin.
The group will be temporarily sheltered in a reception centre for asylum seekers, after what they will follow an integration trajectory to support the permanent stay in Belgium.
The whole program is coordinated by Fedasil.
According the definition of the EMN-glossary, resettlement means : Within an EU-context, this means the transfer, on a request of the UNHCR and based on their need for international protection, of a third-country national or stateless person, from a third country to a Member State, where they are permitted to reside with a protection status.