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.

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.