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Egypt crackdown drives Sudanese refugees on new route to Libya and beyond

Economic hardship, crackdown in Egypt driving refugees onwards

11 June 2025 - 20:47 By Amina Ismail, Nafisa Eltahir and Renee Maltezou

Bahr el-Din Yakoub fled Sudan to seek sanctuary in Egypt after a missile ripped through his home in Khartoum and killed four of his friends...

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