AFRICAN ARAB POLITICAL REFUGEES

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02908748
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: September 29, 2017
• Case Number: F-2016-02190
• Publication Date: January 29, 1954

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Egypt
SUBJECT African Arab Political
Refugees
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The followlng prominent political figures of the African Arab sphere have been
given political asylum by the Egyptian Government:
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1. MOhamiliO4:At!dHAXErim, president of the North African National FreeUom
CdMmiteiSnOn of Abd el Krim; promoter of troubles in Tunisia_
2. Amin Hadaph.el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Palestine and Jerusalem, president of the
National-Council of Palestine. Resident in Cairo since 1948 (temporarily also in
Beirut).
3. Abdel Tell, colonel and regimental commander in the Arab Legion. Political
influences Prevented him from conquering the part of Jerusalem now held by
Israel in the Palestine campaign. He was sentenced to death by a Jordan court
for complicity in the death of the king of Jordan, but Egypt did not surrender
him.
4. Josef Murumbi, 'ead of the Mau-Mau movement after the arrest of Jomo Kenyatta.
He visited India this year in his capacity as general secretary of the Kenya
African Union. Author of the declaration: "We regard Egypt as the power that
can raise the banner of freedom in Africa."
5. Abdel Ghaffar Abdel Rahman, leader of the political ycuth movement in Nigeria.
Received by Naguib in Nov 1953.
6. Amulu Kamared, from Kenya. Mau-Mau sub-leader who fled arrest and reached Cairo
with the help of Ismail Al-Azhari, chairman of the Sudanese National Unity Party.
Received by Naguib with Rahman.
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7. Sala Ben Youssef, general secretary of the Neo-Destour (Tunisian Liberation
Committe). Temporarily in Cairo.
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8. The Moroccan emigrants: Allah el-Passi, founder and leader of the Istigial:
El Sayed Ahmen Hussein, leader of the Moroccan stuaents at the Universities of
Cairo and Alexandria; Ahmed el Mel::1 and Om el Banine, leading members of the
Istiqlal.
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