Fleeing war, poverty, African migrants face racism in Egypt

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Two Sudanese sisters, Seham and Ekhlas Bashir, were walking their children home from elementary school in a Cairo neighborhood when a group of Egyptian teenagers crowded around them. The harassment brought up traumatic memories of detention, torture and rape they said they experienced at the hands of militias in Sudan's Nuba mountains. Egypt has for decades been a refuge for sub-Saharan African migrants trying to escape war or poverty.