{"id":3538,"date":"2020-08-14T12:43:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T12:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=3538"},"modified":"2020-08-14T12:45:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T12:45:59","slug":"ambassador-denies-removal-of-body-parts-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/14\/ambassador-denies-removal-of-body-parts-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Denies Removal of Body Parts in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Egyptian Ambassador to South Sudan Dr. Mohamed M. Kadah during a press briefing about the ties between Egypt and South Sudan, at the Embassy in Juba (photo by Ochaya Jackson) <\/em> <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Ochaya Jackson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Egyptian Ambassador to South\nSudan Dr. Mohamed M. Kadah has on Thursday denied allegations that South\nSudanese who are travelling to Egypt for medical treatment or for other reasons\nfall prey of their body parts being removed unknowingly. Mohamed however admitted\nthat it was sometimes back during the Arab spring during 2011 and 2012, saying\nit was done by gangs who were involved in illegal immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis was at a point of time [when] Egypt was facing a lot of chaos after the revolution in 2011 and 2012 to 2013\u2026.this was a time there was security vacuum and this kind of incident some of them I read in Newspaper in Egypt when I had no idea about coming to South Sudan. It was gangs doing illegal immigration that included South Sudanese, Eritreans, Somalis, and others [and] were basically heading to Israel or elsewhere through Sinai and it was mostly in Sinai. And some of them were arrested this is something from the past it is not happening [now] I assure you\u201d, said Ambassador Mohamed during a press briefing at the Egyptian Embassy in Juba about the ties between Egypt and South Sudan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It came after the high level visit\nby the Egyptian delegation to Juba and as well as the inauguration of Egyptian\nMedical center in which according to the Ambassador it will reduce the number\nof those seeking treatment, be in Egypt or elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ambassador said that Egypt\noffers about four hundred scholarships yearly to South Sudanese without any\nrestriction in areas of studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe offer around 400 plus\nScholarships annually in Egyptian Universities for higher education, and\npostgraduate studies. The conditions and requirement change from time to time\ndepending on the development in education system. But there is no restriction\non areas [of studies] like if someone is willing to apply to study medicine or\nengineering he\/she definitely can\u201d, Ambassador Mohamed informed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He further said the criteria for\nselections are age, gender, and secondary certificate but he COVID-19 has\nhindered next year\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe requirement is usually\nrelated to age, certificate of secondary education in case of higher\neducation\u2026\u2026because of coronavirus pandemic we did not receive information about\nthe position of scholarships for next year\u201d, adding \u201ca big chunk of scholarship\ngoes to South Sudanese community in Egypt itself. But there are different\nbranches of scholarships; the biggest is usually announced online through the\nMinistry of Education. There are scholarships that are managed by the Embassy\nin this case we usually act according to the criteria, we have some other scholarships\nthat are administered directly to the Embassy, we try to give priority to\nladies and young women given disparity in gender in terms of education\u201d Mohamed\nexplained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ochaya Jackson The Egyptian Ambassador to South Sudan Dr. Mohamed M. Kadah has on Thursday denied allegations that South Sudanese who are travelling to Egypt for medical treatment or for other reasons fall prey of their body parts being removed unknowingly. Mohamed however admitted that it was sometimes back[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-news","category-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3540,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions\/3540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}