Egypt: Inside Egypt’s Crackdown On Sudanese Refugees

Weeks passed in silence for the wife of Sudanese refugee “Mohammed Al-Mahdi” after Egyptian police detained her husband in March. The couple lived in Cairo’s Badr district, where officers took Al-Mahdi from the shop where he worked to provide for his family.

Al-Mahdi (35 years old) holds an asylum seeker document issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on September 21, 2025. The situation left his wife in a state of distress due to her inability to meet him inside the…