EGYPT: Risking death for new life in Italy

CAIRO Sunday, September 07, 2008 (IRIN) - Italy has long been a popular destination among young men in Nile Valley villages. Relatives save up money for each other and a transnational information and communication network facilitates the movement of migrants across the Mediterranean. Because about 95 percent of Egypt’s 74 million people live along the Nile Valley and in the Nile Delta on about 4 percent of the country’s land, the pressure to emigrate is significant. Soliman al-Alfy, editor of...