{"id":222621,"date":"2026-02-02T23:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/sudan-experts-warn-of-illegal-crackdown-on-sudanese-refugees-in-egypt\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T23:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:42:50","slug":"sudan-experts-warn-of-illegal-crackdown-on-sudanese-refugees-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/sudan-experts-warn-of-illegal-crackdown-on-sudanese-refugees-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Experts Warn of &#8216;Illegal&#8217; Crackdown On Sudanese Refugees in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Cairo \u2014 <em>Legal experts and political analysts are sounding the alarm over a surge in detentions and forced deportations targeting Sudanese nationals in Egypt. Critics characterise these measures as a direct breach of international refugee protocols.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">Egyptian authorities have reportedly detained dozens of Sudanese refugees, many of whom were awaiting asylum processing, in a wave of street arrests and nighttime raids in the capital, Cairo. Anonymous sources pointed to random stops at checkpoints,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602020025.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo \u2014 Legal experts and political analysts are sounding the alarm over a surge in detentions and forced deportations targeting Sudanese nationals in Egypt. Critics characterise these measures as a direct breach of international refugee protocols. Egyptian authorities have reportedly detained dozens of Sudanese refugees, many of whom were awaiting asylum processing, in a wave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":222622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630518:0afd7bad5506b17b267d9d2cb6140bb6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,14409,4697,415,5060,6918,257,1219,254,4708,7296,12313],"class_list":["post-222621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crackdown","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-experts","tag-illegal","tag-news","tag-refugees","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudanese","tag-warn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630518:0afd7bad5506b17b267d9d2cb6140bb6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}