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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
According to Egyptian news outlet Ahram Online, 170 young Egyptians trying to flee the country for Europe, perished when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the country’s north coast last Wednesday.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi addressed young Egyptians seeking to migrate in the light of the boat disaster last week which killed at least 170 migrants while en route to Italy.
El-Sisi said that there was no “justification or excuse for such death of human beings from Egypt and abroad” and also called on young people to have hope and not seek to migrate, warning that Egypt “cannot be a state of refugees.”
Speaking at the opening of a housing project in the coastal city of Alexandria, Sisi said there was no “justification or excuse” for the loss of life in last weeks shipwreck but that securing the coastline and borders was a tough challenge.
He said factories and fisheries were being built in the Kafr al-Sheikh area, from where the doomed boat departed, to create jobs and hope for locals. Kafr al-Sheikh, in Egypts Nile Delta, has emerged as a hub for a trade smuggling migrants to Europe.
“There is hope .. especially in this place where the migrant boat sank, but we can’t overcome all obstacles and put an end to them in one, two or four years,” Sisi said.
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