Jenifer James
Africa-Press – South-Sudan. The Sudanese embassy in Juba will soon start issuing passports and nationalities to its nationals living in South Sudan.
Brig. Gen. Fath al-Rahman Muhammed al-Tom, the official spokesman for the Sudanese police forces, said a technical team from the passports and civil registry is expected to come to Juba to resume the work of issuing civil registration certificates to Sudanese citizens residing in South Sudan.
Sudan had halted the exercise locally and, in its embassies, abroad due to the conflict that broke mid-April 2023. Thereafter, the General Administration of Passports at the Sudanese Ministry of Interior announced in late August that the exercise would resume.
The Sudanese authorities had set the passport issuance fees at SSP150,000 for the elderly and SSP75,000 for children before Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan directed them to be reduced.
Those applying for passports outside the country were to pay $25 for the elderly and $120 for children.
However, last month, the police in Sudan’s North Darfur State resumed operations at the passports, immigration, and civil registry departments after a break of more than six months of war in Sudan.
Al-Din Osman, the Director of Passports, said that the reopening of these departments took place in the presence of government officials, including the Secretary-General of the Darfur Regional Government, Mohammed Ali Abdullah, and the Secretary-General of the state government, Ibrahim Hasab Al-Daim, and community leaders.
Osman explained that the issuance of passports and civil registry documents for state citizens had been halted for over six months due to the ongoing conflict in the country since mid-April. He noted that the operations are functioning well now, despite some challenges like electrical stability and the need for certain resources.
Since the start of the conflict in Sudan in mid-April, thousands of civilians have fled the country, including refugees from other countries who had sought safety in Sudan.
The majority of them fled to neighbouring countries or returned home in adverse circumstances, notably to the Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, and South Sudan. Others self-relocated within Sudan.
According to UNHCR, the number of refugees who are in South Sudan is 43,439, and most of them are Sudanese who fled the conflict in Sudan.
Source: The City Review South Sudan
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