Egyptian Police Kill 20 Sudanese Refugees
Meanwhile in Egypt, twenty people were killed when Egyptian police brutally attacked a Sudanese refugee camp near UN offices in Cairo: Twenty Sudanese die in Cairo raid.
Egypt’s interior ministry now says 20 Sudanese migrants have died after riot police broke up a makeshift protest camp in Cairo.
Thousands of police stormed the camp, set up near United Nations offices in September, wielding truncheons and firing water cannon at the protesters.
A stampede was reported as police forced hundreds of people onto buses.
In Geneva, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, said he was “deeply shocked” at the deaths.
“There is no justification for such violence and loss of life,” he said.
The United States gives Egypt about $2 billion a year in foreign aid.
