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UNHCR Egypt Fact Sheet - August 2024

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  • Egypt hosts 737,000 registered refugees and asylum-seekers from 62 countries. Sudanese are now the largest group. Most refugees live in urban areas of Cairo and the North Coast.
  • UNHCR helps the Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) to deliver muchneeded humanitarian aid to Gaza and supports medical evacuees in Egypt through the Ministry of Health.
  • More than 700,000 people forced to flee Sudan have approached UNHCR Egypt since April 2023. UNHCR is scaling up the delivery of cash assistance and registration to address the most urgent needs of new arrivals.

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There are 737,000 refugees and asylumseekers registered with UNHCR in Egypt, more than double the number from a year ago with major conflicts across its borders. Refugees in Egypt live in urban settings across the major cities, with most new arrivals coming from Sudan.

Since the onset of the conflict in Sudan, UNHCR has observed a sevenfold increase in Sudanese individuals registering as refugees, mainly women and children. In response to the Gaza crisis, UNHCR has delivered water, clothes, blankets, jerry cans, and sleeping mats to Gaza through the ERC, and cash assistance to medical evacuees from Gaza in Egypt.

UNHCR has been operational in Egypt since 1954 after the Government of Egypt and UNHCR signed a Memorandum of Understanding. Since then, UNCHR has provided protection services including all aspects of registration, documentation, refugee status determination and resettlement to those who are forcibly displaced. UNHCR works through ten partners in Greater Cairo, North Coast, Aswan and North Sinai: CARE Egypt, Caritas, Catholic Relief Service, Don Bosco, Egyptian Foundation for Refugee Rights, the Egyptian Red Crescent, Plan International, All Saints/ Refuge Egypt, Save the Children, and Terre des Hommes.