Mohamed dayri-biography

While much attention was focused on North Africa during the so-called Arab Spring, some effects of revolution were not so obvious. In Egypt, for example, refugees from Libya flooded over the border after a civil war and the death of former leader Muammar Gaddafi. However, Egypt also sees refugees from other parts of Africa. Dealing with it day to day is the UN’s Refugee Agency, the UNHCR.

WRS’s Tony Ganzer went to the UNHCR office outside Cairo to hear how things are going:

6 of October City is a suburb of sorts, or a satellite city from Cairo. It has 500,000 residents itself.

UNHCR: Helping Forgotten Refugees -

But most of the 44,000 refugees helped by the UNHCR office here are scattered across Cairo.

KARMEN SAKHR: “So far, it’s not as bad as people would think it is after the revolution. Things are more going into order. There are some points that we still need to work more on: engaging the government more on what is happening in the Sinai and on the movement over there.”

Karmen Sakhr is the senior protection off His Excellency Mohamed Dayri – Beirut Institute Summit ZYS