CAIRO: A UN refugee agency spokeswoman says Egyptian authorities allowed the organization to visit for the first time two detention centers housing 160 detained African migrants.
Abeer Etefa, of UNHCR in Cairo, says authorities have given unhindered access to 142 Eritreans and 19 Ethiopians held in the two centers in the southern city of Aswan. The city is located 685 km south of Cairo.
Etefa says a UNHCR team is already “on the ground in Aswan and that the migrants, including women and children, seem to be in “decent condition.
Egypt says it still has 650 Eritreans in custody after more than a thousand were detained for illegal entry. Human rights groups have condemned the deportation of others. -AP
