Brussels, 05/09/2012 ( Agence Europe ) - After waiting for nearly eighteen months in a temporary camp at Shousha, some four miles from the Tunisian/Libyan border, on 3 September, 195 refugees left for Germany, according to a press release issued by the International Migration Organisation (OIM). Germany has agreed to house 200 refugees, but the remaining five cannot leave the camp until they have had medical examinations. Ursula Schulze Aboubacar, Tunisia's representative to the UN High Commission for Refugees, says the German government has been very fast in completing the selection and departure process and she hoped that the remaining refugees at Shousha would not have to wait too long for a lasting solution. The refugees had initially fled to Libya, before being forced to move on last year because of the Libyan crisis. Most of them come from Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia, and are single men from the age of eighteen to thirty-five. In May of this year, the German federal immigration and refugee office (BAMF) sent a selection team to Shousha to interview refugees shortlisted by the HCR. BAMF agreed to house 200 of the 246 requests. The HCR says that 2,211 refugees are currently living in Shousha. Some 1,320 have been promised a home in another country (this includes the 200 in Germany) under certain conditions and a further 635 are waiting to hear about their applications. OIM says most of the refugees that fled to Shousha from Libya will be given homes in the United States, which has agreed to take 2,000 of them. (SP/transl.fl)