<p>The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said it had resettled 71 refugees from Libya to Canada.</p>.<p>"UNHCR resettled 71 refugees, including 37 children, from Libya to Canada supported by IOM (the International Organization for Migration)," the UNHCR tweeted on Sunday.</p>.<p>"The group included families from Syria, Sudan, Palestine and Somalia," it added.</p>.<p>There are currently 41,404 refugees and asylum-seekers registered in Libya at the UNHCR, Xinhua news agency reported.</p>.<p>Libya has been suffering insecurity and chaos since the fall of the late leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, making the North African country a preferred point of departure for illegal immigrants who want to cross the Mediterranean Sea to European shores.</p>.<p>So far in 2021, a total of 29,427 illegal immigrants have been rescued, while 490 died and 736 went missing off the Libyan coast on the Central Mediterranean route, according to the IOM.</p>.<p><strong>Watch the latest DH Videos here:</strong></p>
<p>The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said it had resettled 71 refugees from Libya to Canada.</p>.<p>"UNHCR resettled 71 refugees, including 37 children, from Libya to Canada supported by IOM (the International Organization for Migration)," the UNHCR tweeted on Sunday.</p>.<p>"The group included families from Syria, Sudan, Palestine and Somalia," it added.</p>.<p>There are currently 41,404 refugees and asylum-seekers registered in Libya at the UNHCR, Xinhua news agency reported.</p>.<p>Libya has been suffering insecurity and chaos since the fall of the late leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, making the North African country a preferred point of departure for illegal immigrants who want to cross the Mediterranean Sea to European shores.</p>.<p>So far in 2021, a total of 29,427 illegal immigrants have been rescued, while 490 died and 736 went missing off the Libyan coast on the Central Mediterranean route, according to the IOM.</p>.<p><strong>Watch the latest DH Videos here:</strong></p>