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| Egypt rejects European proposals for 'illegal migrants' camps in Africa |
| 2017-02-04 |
| [AlAhram] A foreign affairs ministry official said that the EU should instead invest in more jobs in the southern Mediterranean region and African continent. Egypt announced its rejection on Thursday of establishing camps for irregular im ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... (EU) interior ministers who discussed the possibility of financing camps on the continent. Hisham Badr, Egypt’s assistant foreign minister for multilateral affairs, called on Europe instead to increase investments to create more jobs in the southern Mediterranean region and African continent to curb irregular migration. Badr’s statement came ahead of his visit to Geneva upon an official invitation from the International Organization For Migration (IOM) to present Egypt’s expertise in combating irregular migration. In November 2016, Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi signed into law a bill aimed at curbing illegal immigration and cracking down on human smuggling amid a hike in the number of Last week, interior ministers from the EU discussed in a meeting the possibility of financing camps in Africa where the UN's refugee agency and aid groups would process Nearly 210,000 irregular im Around 3000 irregular im |
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