أكد الممثل الإقليمى للمفوضية السامية لشئون اللاجئين فى القاهرة السفير محمد الديرى أن المنطقة العربية تستضيف أكبر عدد من اللاجئين فى العالم حيث يوجد 4 ملايين لاجئ فلسطينى بالإضافة إلى وجود 400 ألف لاجئ عراقى حتى نهاية عام 2013 متبقين من ملايين اللاجئين العراقيين بعد أزمة العراق 2003 . وقال الديرى...

Raghad came with her family to Egypt after the situation in Syria became impossible to endure. She was married for only 40 days, of which she spent only one week in her house. Thereafter the family had to move a lot in Syria due to the lack of security and shelling. “I was shocked when my pare...

I arrived from Syria to Egypt last year by plane with my family – my wife and four children, and my mother, who unfortunately passed away two months ago. I decided to leave Aleppo because we were under siege. We hardly had any means of survival left. Food, water, electricity and gas became almost...

“All I need is to find work in order to survive. Can you find me work?” These are the first words of Nabila, a 42 year old widow, originally from the city of Homs in Syria. She came to Egypt by air via Beirut with her 20 year old son and 17 year old daughter in February 2013. “Back home in Syr...

Ghazal arrived to Egypt from Damascus by plane with her two sons. She says, “we went through a great deal of pain, displacement, and shelling back in Syria; my house was bombed, my husband was arrested, my children suffered mental anguish as a result of the severe circumstances.” Ghazal remembers...

Three years ago, there were few authentic Syrian restaurants in Egypt. “Now they are countless,” said Mohamed Belal, who helped to found one of Cairo’s first Syrian restaurant chains in 2004. Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, more than 190,000 Syrians have taken refuge in Egypt, brin...

أكد السفير طارق معاطي، نائب مساعد وزير الخارجية للاجئين والهجرة، استعداد مصر لتقديم كل ما يلزم من تعاون مع المجتمع الدولى فى هذا الصدد مؤكداً على أهمية استمرار التنسيق والتعاون لضمان أفضل السبل لمساعدة الأشقاء السوريين على العيش الكريم وتخفيف معاناتهم. جاء ذلك خلال استقبال السفير طارق معاطى الثلا...

Egypt is increasingly becoming a hub for illegal migration to Europe. This is Alexandria, one of the port cities of the Nile Delta. Many migrants and would-be migrants leave from this shore. They take fearful risks to cross the Mediterranean Sea. They’ve been driven by wars in Syria, Iraq and Dar...

GENEVA: More than 3,000 migrants have died trying to cross the Mediterranean so far this year, more than double the previous peak in 2011, the International Organisation for Migration said Monday. Europe is by far the most dangerous destination for “irregular” migrants, the organisation found in ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency on Wednesday said it was urging the European Union to overhaul its policy toward Syrian refugees, warning the number of fatal accidents at sea could rise further as winter approaches. U.N. officials, presenting their proposals in Athens, said more tha...