Southerners to become Sudan’s ‘foreigners’ in less than 9 months
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July 25, 2011 (NAIROBI) – The status of southerners in north Sudan
will be changed from “citizens” to “foreigners” in 9 months, Khartoum
announced on Monday as Juba claimed the moral high-ground by
announcing that the south will give citizenship to northerners.
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A Sudanese from the south, who stayed in the north for 21 years,
stands outside her shelter at Mandela camp, in the outskirts of
Khartoum, July 4, 2011 (REUTERS PICTURES)
Controversy surrounds the fate of nearly one million southern citizens
in the rump of Sudan after the South declared independence on 9 July
in line with the outcome of the region’s referendum on independence, a
vote guaranteed under the 2005 comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA)
which ended more than two decades of civil war between the two sides.
Sudan’s parliament this month endorsed amendments introduced into the
immigration law to strip southerners off their citizenship.
The director of the passports and civil registry, Adam Dalil Adam, on
Monday said that southerners in the north will have a period of nine
months after which they will be subject to all the laws regulating the
presence of “foreigners” in the country.
He told the country’s official news agency SUNA that the period had
already commenced with the declaration of South Sudan independence.
Conversely, South Sudan has declared that northerners living in the
south will be entitled to obtain South Sudan citizenship.
South Sudan’s information minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin on Monday
said that the south’s constitution will accept dual citizenship. He
added that northerners living in the south may acquire citizenship as
prescribed by the law.
“We would give permanent residence to Northern people who come for
investment in addition to skilled workers with certain conditions that
would be specified by the Department of Naturalization and Immigration
Authority,” he said.
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