During Thursday’s press conference held by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and German chancellor Angela Merkel, the chancellor stated that nearly 1,000 Egyptians reached Germany illegally. Merkel came to Egypt on Thursday for a two-day visit and is set to head to Tunisia later on Friday. Merkel noted that Germany is providing Egypt with financial support for the sake of improving the living conditions of refugees. This is Merkel’s first visit to Egypt since 2009, and her first official meeting with Al-Sisi since he visited Berlin in 2015. In the wake of the Arab Spring and the Syrian civil war, nearly 1.3m migrants and refugees came to Europe via various routes, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Eurostat figures from 2015.

Source: Daily News Egypt March 03, 2017 13:30 UTC