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Ambassador Salah Abdel-Sadek, Chairman of the Standing Committee for Refugee Affairs, also attended the meeting.
The president stated that Egypt has never used the refugee issue to achieve political objectives, stressing the importance of activating the principle of burden- and responsibility-sharing.
El-Sisi underscored the need to support Egypt’s new national asylum system, whose executive framework is currently being finalized.
Egypt’s NCCM and UNHCR sign deal to boost protection, referrals, and integration for refugee and asylum-seeking children.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Thursday that Egypt deserves praise and support for its efforts in providing a ‘Safe Haven’ to more than one million of the most vulnerable refugees in the region, under exceptionally difficult circumstances.
Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to Egypt and the Arab League Hanan Hamdan stressed the importance of increasing international support, not only for refugees, but also for host communities that are facing growing pressures.
The Sudanese compose the largest group.
UNHCR Egypt indicated Wednesday that the number of registered refugees and asylum seekers had increased by 208% between March 21, 2023 and January 31, 2025.
The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Cairo announced Sunday a donation worth $1.9 million to UNHCR’s Sudan refugee response in Egypt.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi released Tuesday a statement on Syria.
Participants included delegations from 22 countries and a high-level delegation from the Egyptian Government.
The UNHCR released a report last week highlighting that Egypt had become the largest host of Sudanese who "sought international protection" since the outbreak of war in mid-April 2023.
The organization indicated that the figure, which is 1.2 million, is based on the data of the Egyptian government.
European Union Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson began her official trip to Egypt earlier this week by visiting the registration office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Cairo.
A meeting covered the repercussions of the armed conflict in Sudan, deterioration of the humanitarian conditions in Gaza, and the role of the Egyptian Red Crescent in response to emergencies abroad.
Additional funding is urgently needed to scale up access to safe inclusive, equitable quality education for refugees as well as vulnerable host community children.
The UNHCR country representative met earlier this week with the Egyptian Minister of Education and Technical Education.
The number of Sudanese refugees registered with the UNHCR in Egypt amounts to 47,489.
More than 170,000 people have entered Egypt since the conflict started on 15 April.
In a meeting on Monday in Cairo, Sisi and Grandi discussed enhancing cooperation in light of Egypt being a destination for refugees coming from a number of sisterly countries and living side by side with the Egyptian people as brothers and guests, the Egyptian Presidency said in a statement.
