Bahr el-Din Yakoub, 25, a Sudanese migrant looks on after an interview with Reuters at open park in Athens, Greece June 2, 2025. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas
CAIRO/ATHENS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Bahr el-Din Yakoub fled Sudan to seek sanctuary in Egypt after a missile ripped through his home in Khartoum and killed four of his friends.
But economic hardship and a crackdown on refugees in Egypt pushed him onwards, first along dangerous desert smuggling routes into northeastern Libya, and then on the perilous sea crossing to the Greek island of Crete.
