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Viewing cable 07CAIRO3516, SUDANESE IN EGYPT TURN TO GANG VIOLENCE

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07CAIRO3516 2007-12-17 15:18 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Cairo
VZCZCXYZ0026
RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHEG #3516 3511518
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 171518Z DEC 07
FM AMEMBASSY CAIRO
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 7772
UNCLAS CAIRO 003516 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPARTMENT FOR NEA/ELA AND AF/SPG 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL PREF PHUM EG SU
SUBJECT: SUDANESE IN EGYPT TURN TO GANG VIOLENCE 
 
REF: 2006 Cairo 170 
 
1. Summary: Sudanese gang violence has become a problem of 
increasing concern in Cairo. Gang members are Sudanese youths who 
face poor economic prospects in Egypt, are unwilling to return to 
worse prospects in Sudan, and are less able to resettle in third 
countries following the 2005 peace agreement between North and South 
Sudan.  Gang violence is mostly directed at third-country, 
marginalized Africans or between gangs themselves, as Egyptian 
police tend to look the other way as long as violence does not 
impact Egyptian citizens. 
 
Sudanese in Gangs Poor, Have Few Prospects 
------------------------------------------ 
 
2. Sudanese gangs comprise mainly uneducated and poor Sudanese men 
between 16 and 35 years old. As of November 12 there were 500 to 600 
members of these gangs based in the Maadi, Ain Shams, Nasr City and 
Abbaseya districts of Cairo, according to Boutros Agot, Director of 
the Cairo-based Serving the Refugees and Community Organization. 
Sudanese who have joined gangs are mainly from marginalized areas in 
Sudan, including Darfur, the Nubia Mountains, and Southern Sudan 
according to Jaafar Salem, a researcher at the Forced Migration and 
Refugee Studies Center (FMRS) at the American University in Cairo 
(AUC).  Agot told us that Sudanese gang violence is on the rise due 
to the lack of education and employment prospects, poverty, and 
absence of necessity services for Sudanese in Egypt. 
 
3. The 2005 signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) 
between North and South Sudan was a turning point for Sudanese in 
Egypt.   With the end of hostilities, UNHCR/Cairo began giving South 
Sudanese asylum-seeker, rather than refugee, status. In practice, 
this removed the possibility of resettlement in a third country for 
these Sudanese, who were faced with poor prospects in Egypt or even 
worse situations returning to Sudan. Sudanese youth thus began 
turning to violence in the streets of Cairo, according to Abeer 
Etefa, Senior Regional Global Public Information Officer at the 
UNHCR Cairo Bureau.  The change in UNHCR resettlement policy was the 
reason behind a late 2005 Sudanese sit-in outside the UNHCR office 
in downtown Cairo, which was violently dispersed by Egyptian police, 
with about 30 refugee fatalities.  (reftel). 
 
Gangs Attack Africans, Each Other 
--------------------------------- 
 
4. Sudanese gangs in Cairo target other marginalized Africans, such 
as Somalis, Nigerians and people from the Comoros Islands, according 
to Salem.  For instance, a recent report by the Serving the Refugees 
and Community Organization reported that Sudanese gangs in Cairo 
attacked Somalis 22 times during the month of Ramadan in 2007 (from 
mid-September 2007 to mid-October 2007). Agot told us that the 
illegal status of many marginalized Africans in Cairo prevents them 
from going to the police to report violence, for fear they would be 
deported for illegal residence in Egypt. Inter-gang fights also 
sometimes occur, said Salem.  In one such incident in June 2007, 
which was widely reported in local press, a Sudanese was killed near 
the AUC campus in downtown Cairo during a fight between two Sudanese 
gangs over a girl. 
 
Gangs Prompt Little Egyptian Police Response 
-------------------------------------------- 
 
5. Our contacts tell us that a de facto agreement has developed 
between Sudanese gangs and the Egyptian police, in which the gangs 
do not attack Egyptians and the police mostly overlook intra-African 
violence.  Salem and Agot contend that Egyptian police respond 
slowly or even "turn a blind eye" to crimes committed by Sudanese 
gangs as long as they stay away from Egyptians or other Arabs. 
Etefa told us that Sudanese refugees confirmed this perception, 
reporting to UNHCR that the Egyptian police do not interfere with 
Sudanese gangs. However, Agot said that his organization has 
recently worked with Egyptian authorities to better patrol the 
neighborhoods where the gangs operate, in the hopes of deterring 
violence by intimidation. 
 
6. Agot complained that gang members cannot be deported due to UNHCR 
and Sudanese Embassy intervention.  Agot said that the UNHCR lobbies 
to protect most Sudanese who are arrested, as they are often 
registered as refugees or asylum-seekers, and that the Sudanese 
Embassy in Cairo also intervenes to protect Sudanese gang members. 
Etefa defended UNHCR's policies, saying that deportation exposes 
Sudanese to danger back in Sudan, and that gang members receive fair 
trials according to Egyptian legal procedures.  Professor Ibrahim 
Nour, head of the African Studies Center at AUC, told us, however, 
that Egypt recently deported five Sudanese due to their gang 
activities for the first time in 2007. 
 
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