Human Rights Watch says thousands of refugees and asylum-seeking children in Egypt are out of school, this is due to significant bureaucratic registration barriers and a lack of free and publicly available education in the country.

The organisation has called on the Egyptian authorities to remove the barriers keeping refugee and asylum-seeking children out of school and it has also called on humanitarian funding for education for refugees in Egypt.

Channel Africa's Mabu Boloka spoke to Ahmed Benchemsi, Advocacy and Communications Director for Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa division.