Egypt's crackdown drives Sudanese refugees on new route to Libya and beyond


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.

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