After losing jobs, many Sudanese struggle to make ends meet in Egypt


  • World
  • Tuesday, 14 Jul 2020

Sudanese refugee Ayat Mohamed’s sick father sits on a wheelchair at their home in Ain Shams district, amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Cairo, Egypt, July 7, 2020. Picture taken July 7, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

CAIRO (Reuters) - After losing his job as house cleaner in Cairo, Sudanese refugee Abdel-Nasser Khamis has been struggling to pay his bills.

It's a fate shared by tens of thousands of migrants in Egypt, where the fallout from the coronavirus has hit the economy hard, U.N. officials and aid workers say.

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