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.

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, on Monday during his two-day official visit to Egypt, to discuss the refugee situation in the country, a source from the UNHCR informed Daily News Egypt.

“The European Union (EU) is encouraging Egypt to play a greater role in combating irregular migration,” well-informed European and Arab sources told the Anadolu Agency yesterday.

When Hana and her 15-year-old daughter landed at Cairo International Airport in March 2016, they assumed they had arrived in the right place. On board a Yemen Airways plane coming from Aden, they had left behind a country sunken in a war that was starting to appear entrenched. The fate of …

In light of Egypt’s presidency of the African Union in 2019, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), António Vitorino, expressed his keenness to deepen the bilateral relations with Egypt, namely in the field of combating illegal immigration.