Syrian refugees are facing a wave of hostility in Egypt, with locals accusing them of dominating business activities and filling valuable employment positions.

The closure of a popular Syrian-owned restaurant in the east Alexandria neighborhood of Asafra over what an employee in the Alexandria governor’s office claimed to be “health code violations” has renewed fears among Syrians of tighter restrictions on their businesses in Egypt. It has also sparked a new wave of hostility …

“On September 10, after four months of trouble in Egypt from dealing with residency, to travel dates and prison, I left Egypt at dawn,” writes Ameen Taky, a 32 year old former furniture salesman from Yemen, in a post on his personal Facebook page. In a series of 27 statuses, …

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with the European Commissioner for Migration, Citizenship and Home Affairs, Dimitris Avramopoulos, Ambassador of the European Union (EU) to Egypt, Ivan Surkos, and Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shoukry, in a meeting on Tuesday.

Head of International Organization for Migration (IOM) mission in Egypt Laurent de Bock said Monday that Egypt has hosted many migrants for decades which made it a culturally rich country.

An Egyptian hospital and officials at the Yemeni embassy in Cairo were involved in a large-scale organ-trafficking ring from 2014 that included hundreds of patients and brokers from Yemen and Egypt, an Al Jazeera investigation has revealed.

Egyptian authorities thwarted an attempt of smuggling more than 2 tons of drugs, worth LE 2 billion [US $115,5 million] on board of a ship in the Red Sea, said the Ministry of Interior in a statement on Thursday.

Giza Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced 40 people to 3-16 years in prison for human trafficking and facilitating illegal migration charges.

Egypt’s Attorney General Nabil Sadek ordered the detention of 22 defendants for four days pending investigations over joining gangs smuggling Egyptians and foreign refugees in the region to European and other states.

Commissioner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called Monday for intensifying help to Egypt, which hosts a large number of refugees, especially Syrians and Africans.