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How many refugees in Egypt!

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in response to reader comment: News from Egypt that hardly make it to our MSM including Egypt is now the home of 5 million refugees!

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Oct 22, 2017 at 07:51

Dr Pipes

You are correct. However acquiring Egyptian citizenship is very difficult even for those born in Egypt to non Egyptian mothers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_nationality_law

This means that a Sudanese or a Syrian migrant regardless of the reason for being in Egypt he/she will be regarded as Sudanese or Syrian and not Egyptian

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