{"id":233432,"date":"2026-05-16T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-inside-egypts-crackdown-on-sudanese-refugees\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:05:07","slug":"egypt-inside-egypts-crackdown-on-sudanese-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-inside-egypts-crackdown-on-sudanese-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Inside Egypt&#8217;s Crackdown On Sudanese Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Weeks passed in silence for the wife of Sudanese refugee &#8220;Mohammed Al-Mahdi&#8221; after Egyptian police detained her husband in March. The couple lived in Cairo&#8217;s Badr district, where officers took Al-Mahdi from the shop where he worked to provide for his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"123\">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&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605140030.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>Weeks passed in silence for the wife of Sudanese refugee &#8220;Mohammed Al-Mahdi&#8221; after Egyptian police detained her husband in March. The couple lived in Cairo&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":233433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,14409,4697,415,6989,257,1219,254,7296],"class_list":["post-233432","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-egypts","tag-news","tag-refugees","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudanese"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233432","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=233432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}