A BBC investigation has shed light on Egypt’s organ trafficking trade. One organ trafficker they spoke to said his gang arranges between 20 to 30 illegal transplants a week.

Egypt‘s Minister of Local Development, Mahmoud Sharawi, sent an internal circular to all governors and deputies in the country, demanding a halt to new licenses for shops owned by Syrians, according to The New Arab’s Arabic language service.

Abdel Meguid al-Karki, an Ethiopian refugee in his mid-30s, has learned the importance of concealing his identity the hard way.

Hanan Adam arrived in Egypt as a refugee from Sudan five years ago. The 39-year-old lives with her seven children in 6th of October City and used to find work as a day laborer in various factories producing refrigerators and light bulbs before they started laying off Sudanese workers, she …

Egypt’s Ministry of Interior has arrested 86 illegal immigrants in Giza and Aswan, according to a Wednesday statement. It was added that the ministry received information about a number of illegal immigrants in Giza coming from several countries.

A Cairo criminal court sentenced a former honorary Italian consul to 15 years in jail in absentia on Tuesday for smuggling antiquities out of the country, a judicial source said.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director General António Vitorino said on Saturday that the rate of illegal immigration from Egypt to Europe has decreased over the past months to almost zero, thanks to effective measures taken by the Egyptian government.

Egypt’s Ministry of Immigration and Expatriates Affairs is launching programs geared towards school children in provinces that witness illegal immigration. These programs seek to raise awareness on the risks of this phenomenon.

Egypt’s Commander-in-chief of the Naval Forces Ahmed Khaled Hassan stated on Sunday that illegal immigration cases to Egypt have not been recorded since September 2016, according to UN reports.

Syrian families arrested while trying to enter Egypt without authorization are terrified by the Egyptian authorities’ threats to send them back to war-torn Syria, human rights activists say.