US considering sending stranded Afghans in Qatar to the Congo, advocacy group says

US considering sending stranded Afghans in Qatar to the Congo, advocacy group says Submitted by Yasmine El-Sabawi on Mon, 04/27/2026 - 19:55 State Department only said that moving them to 'a third country is a positive resolution' US Secretary of State Marco Rubio heads into the White House in Washington, DC, on 23 April 2026 (Mandel Ngan/AFP) Off More than a thousand Afghans stranded at a US -run military base in Qatar may be getting transferred to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for resettlement, the advocacy group #AfghanEvac has said. Camp As Sayliyah (Cas) in the Qatari desert currently holds 1,100 Afghans with links to the US military and government. They had been screened and flown out to the Gulf to await immigration to the US under various visa and refugee programmes.