Jeff Black | Berlin

CAIRO, 26 Dec 2006 (IRIN) -
Sudanese refugee community leaders are claiming that their living conditions in the Egyptian capital are worse than ever, one year after scores of their members were killed by Egyptian troops.

The precise number of Sudanese refugees living in Egypt is not known, however observers put the number between one and three million. Many have been living in limbo, waiting for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) Cairo office to process their refugee status.

The situation for the refugees worsened on the night of 29 December 2005, when 27 refugees and asylum seekers were killed in Mustafa Mahmoud Park in Cairo. Another protestor later died, and another reportedly committed suicide because of the trauma.

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