Halfa locality in the northern state of Sudan reported on Wednesday the deportation of 600 foreigners to their countries as part of the campaign to legalize the foreign presence in the northern state.
The head of the security committee in the locality said that “the decision comes as a continuation of the campaigns of the security in the locality, in combating negative phenomena and targeting and pursuing sleeper cells,” reassuring his citizens that “the authorities are working hard to further establish security and stability in the locality.”
This comes as a continuationof a decision taken by the local authorities of Al-Damer, the capital of Sudan’s River Nile State, in the middle of this month, when they gave foreigners in the locality a period of 10 days to leave, in light of the war raging in the country, since mid-April April 2023.
The newspaper “Al-Youm El tally” quoted the decision of the Security Committee in the locality of Damer in River Nile State, giving foreigners only 10 days to leave the locality, after the director of the Department of Foreigners and Immigration Control in Khartoum State, Colonel Nizar Khalil, issued an announcement asking all foreigners to leave Khartoum State within 15 days for their safety.
Earlier, the Sudanese Foreign Ministry called on countries receiving Sudanese migrants to “facilitate legal migration routes and prevent forced deportation, taking into account the basic human rights principles on which the Global Compact for Safe Migration was built.”
The Sudanese Deputy Foreign Minister, Ambassador Hussein Al-Amin Al-Fadil, was quoted by the Sudanese Deputy Foreign Minister, as saying at the conference of the “Second Regional Review of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in the Arabic Region,” where he called for “facilitating the integration of Sudanese migrants into receiving societies, which are brotherly societies with which we are linked by the ties of Arabism and history,” he said.
“Because of the war, Sudan has become one of the largest source countries for migration after it was one of the largest hosts of refugees from neighboring countries,” al-Fadil said, noting that “more than 15 million Sudanese have fled their homes, mostly women, children and the elderly, in areas that have been attacked by the Rapid Support Forces.”
Fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces has been ongoing since mid-April 2023, killing about 15,000 people and displacing about 8.5 million displaced people and refugees, according to the United Nations.
