Migrants
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Egyptian Expats Badr Abdelatty and EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson met in Cairo on Monday.
Ambassador Rady concluded by shedding light on the fact that Egypt hosts nine million migrants, and has no refugee camps.
Egypt's Ambassador to Brussels Badr Abdel Aty met with European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic to discuss the issue of migrant flow into Egypt.
The law specifies the penalty for anyone who prepares or manages a place to house, collect, or transport smuggled migrants, or facilitates or provides them with any services, with proven knowledge of that.
IOM revealed that the current number of international migrants residing in Egypt was 9,012,582 equivalent migrants to 8.7% of the Egyptian population (103,655,989).
On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement Monday.
The IOM also confirmed the rescue of about 4,461 migrants during the same period, according to a latest update published by the IOM's office in Libya on its official Facebook page.
The country also asserted the necessity of respecting others' right in religious freedom, which is one of the human rights.
This legislation comes within the framework of the state's strategy towards providing legislative solutions to combat such crime.
The World Health Organization held a press conference Wednesday, providing the latest developments in confronting Coronavirus, ensuring the importance of a third dose “booster” to protect against the infection.
That was at the high-profile meeting of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
The initiative seeks to enhance coordination, ensure better delivery and mobilize resources to realize long-term, sustainable development gains for migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and their host communities, enhancing social inclusion and cohesion, the statement said.
This comes within the state’s humanitarian and sovereignty efforts to protect the Libyan shores and provide rescue services.
A boat belonging to the Libyan coast guard moved the migrants to a Tripoli base ahead of handing them to the department of combating illegal immigration.
As many as 9,216 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean Sea so far this year, compared to 7,106 last year.
The bodies were detected off the coast of Saloum city western the country.
Hundreds of migrants headed through permeable borders to Greece from Turkey on Sunday
The total number of migrants intercepted by the Libyan coast guard in the past month rose 121 percent from the same period last year.
Four migrants have died and up to 16 more are missing after trying to cross into Europe from North Africa on a small raft, Spain’s coastguard said on Wednesday.
The charity SOS Mediterranean announced Sunday it would deploy a new vessel to "conduct search and rescue activities" off the coast of Libya.
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