54% of Sudanese want to leave the country: report
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June 26, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - A survey conducted by the Arab Center for
Research and Policy Studies in Qatar revealed that 54% of Sudanese
wish to emigrate out of the country.
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An officer delivers passports to Sudanese migrants at the Secretariat
for Sudanese Working Abroad in Khartoum, May 13, 2013.
(REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)
The study said out of those seeking to leave, 79% want to do so to
improve living conditions, 5% for security reasons and 4% for
political reasons.
Sudan ranked the first among countries included in the report such as
Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco,
Mauritania, Palestine, Yemen, Kuwait and Libya.
Most of the Sudanese respondents asked said they want to live in Saudi
Arabia (20%), Qatar (10%) and United States (8%).
This survey is the second of its kind after the first poll carried out
during the years 2010-2011 on a sample size of 16,173 in 12 Arab
countries compared to 21,350 in 2012-2013.
The supervisor of the project Mohammed al-Masri said this survey is
the largest carried out in the Arab world. He added that it analyzed
the results of the data at the provincial and the states level.
According to Reuters, nearly 95,000 Sudanese left the country last
year compared to only 10,032 in 2008, according to official data. Some
analysts say the number is even higher because travel movements are
hard to monitor.
Sudan is battling its biggest economic crisis for decades as it
struggles with a severe shortage of hard currency following the loss
of three quarters of its oil production due to South Sudan’s
independence in 2011. Oil revenues were the main source of revenue for
Sudan’s budget and for foreign currency needed to pay for vital
imports including food and medicine.
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