Egypt deports dozens of Sudanese over attempted illegal immigration

Thirty-six Sudanese migrants have been deported from Egypt for their attempted illegal immigration to Italy.

The migrants were apprehended in a fishing vessel at a beach in the northern Egyptian governorate of Kafr el-Sheikh. There were also dozens of other Egyptian migrants that were making the journey in the same boat.

After the Sudanese Embassy in the Egyptian capital Cairo was informed of the arrests it issued travel documents for the migrants to facilitate their return to Khartoum.

In recent weeks, hundreds of Egyptian migrants, as well as many more from other African countries, have been arrested at the country’s borders. The Egyptian and Italian authorities have managed to foil a large number of illegal immigration attempts by asylum seekers.

Some 26 people were apprehended on 6 July in the northern governorate of Beheira as they attempted to make their way to Italy. And just three days later a further 74 migrants were arrested as they tried to make their way across the Mediterranean to Italy; they were from a number of different countries.

Italy, meanwhile, deported 28 undocumented migrants from Egypt on 25 June.