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- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi took a dig at European governments’ handling of the migration issue and mentioned that the issue should be tackled in a more humanitarian manner
- He said that Egypt was hosting over 6 million people who escaped conflict and poverty in their own countries
- Egypt didn’t reject them or put them in camps, even though the number of migrants to Egypt was in millions and not in 100’s, as the EU countries are facing.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi took a dig at European governments’ handling of the migration issue and mentioned that the issue should be tackled in a more humanitarian manner. He said that Egypt was hosting over 6 million people who escaped conflict and poverty in their own countries.
Egypt didn’t reject them or put them in camps, even though the number of migrants to Egypt was in millions and not in 100’s, as the EU countries are facing. he said The data compiled by the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration says Egypt hosts more than 6 million migrants, more than half of them from Sudan and South Sudan, where simmering conflicts continue to displace tens of thousands of people annually.
For some, Egypt is a destination and a haven, the closest and easiest country for them to enter. For others, it is a point of transit before attempting the dangerous
Mediterranean crossing to Europe. But numbers of migrants setting out from Egypt are few when compared to how many travel from Libya.
Libya has emerged as the dominant transit point for migrants fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East, hoping for a better life in Europe. Egypt has for decades been a refuge for sub-Saharan African migrants.
