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Egyptian officials were expecting an increase of Sudanese refugees into Egypt as there are over one million Southern Sudanese residing in north Sudan, and the country's split could result in a mass departure from Khartoum. Nevertheless, Egypt's poor track record of treatment toward Sudanese refugees made it difficult to imagine the proper ...
The Sudanese refugees in Egypt fall under two categories: those who are waiting for their status-determination interview and those who have been rejected or who are self-settled. [15] Between 60 and 70 percent of Sudanese asylum seekers have their applications for refugee status rejected. [ 15 ]
An ongoing refugee crisis began in Africa in mid-April 2023 after the outbreak of the Sudanese civil war.By June 2024, around 2.1 million people have fled the country, while around 12 million [4] [5] have been internally displaced within Sudan; these numbers include at least 75,000 migrant returnees and other third-country nationals, making the refugee and displacement crisis in Sudan the ...
Some 3.6 million refugees have fled to countries including Egypt, Chad and South Sudan. The Foreign Secretary said: “Sudanese people are facing violence on an unimaginable scale. This is the ...
The United Nations said Tuesday the surging violence in Sudan is likely to drive more than 1 million refugees out of the African country by October, as the 10-week conflict shows few signs of easing.
Many of them arrived in Egypt, the neighboring country. [1] In October 2005, about 2,000 Sudanese people camped outside Mustafa Mahmoud square, Mohandessin – an upper middle class suburb where the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has an office – protesting conditions in Egypt and seeking to be resettled in another country. [2]
The freezing of US humanitarian assistance has forced the closure of almost 80% of the emergency food kitchens set up to help people left destitute by Sudan's civil war, the BBC has learned.
Large numbers of refugee kidnappings in Sinai occurred between 2009 and 2014. Refugees from Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea were transported to Sinai and held hostage by members of Bedouin tribes. Typically, the hostages were forced to give up phone numbers of relatives and were tortured with the relatives on the phone, in order to obtain ransoms ...