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/ 4 November 2005

Refugee tragedy unfolds amid Cairo Eid celebrations

As Muslims held a mass prayer at Cairo’s Mustafa Mahmud mosque, the personal tragedies of Sudanese refugees continued to unfold a few metres away, screened off from the Eid al-Fitr festival like an eyesore. For the rituals marking the end of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, the authorities had temporarily erected coloured screens to hide the chaotic makeshift camp from the mosque.