Envoy says Filipinos in Egypt refuse to leave

Egypt’s Ambassador to Manila Mahmoud Mostafa Ahmed said on Thursday that no Filipino will leave Egypt despite the Philippine government’s call for mandatory repatriation.

In a press briefing at the Egyptian Embassy in Makati City, Ahmed told reporters that Filipinos are satisfied working in Egypt, where the supposed intense violence, in his words, was a “one-sided view” by Western countries that criticized Cairo’s recent dispersal of the Muslim Brotherhood’s camps.