Egypt Ramps Up Sudanese Refugee Deportations With Little UNHCR Pushback

Cairo — “It is a systematic effort to erase their legal protections.”

Deportations of Sudanese refugees escaping the world’s largest humanitarian crisis for safety in neighbouring Egypt have accelerated over the past 12 months, escalating a campaign of repression that was exposed in a joint investigation by The New Humanitarian and the Refugees Platform in Egypt last year.

Critics say the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) – the main international organisation in Egypt mandated to protect and advocate…