On February 28, 2024, the BBC relayed Salama’s poignant testimony. This young woman was abandoned in the desert with her mother’s corpse while fleeing the civil war in Sudan. Salama’s mother died in a pick-up truck accident caused by a smuggler who was recklessly driving the vehicle. Cases of smugglers abandoning asylum-seekers of Sudanese origin on their way to Egypt have increased since the outbreak of the conflict in Sudan in April 2023.
On February 24, 2024, a faulty boat carrying 35 migrants was adrift off the coast of Egypt while originally heading to the island of Crete.
On February 16, 2024, in the face of the ongoing mass slaughter carried out by Israel, and a risk of mass exodus of the colonized Palestinian population, Egypt is reportedly building a refugee camp in the border area with Gaza. According to a video by the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights, the Egyptian authorities are building a camp by isolating it with concrete walls. It is important to remember that since October 7, 2023, 1.7 million Palestinians have been displaced inside the Gaza Strip.
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