Southerners stranded in Sudan waiting for a trip home

Published: 23/May/2012
Source: Bloomberg

By Salma El Wardany

Nimuli struggled to rise from a rope bed to greet pastor James Mading Bui at an Episcopal church where she lives in a suburb of Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, waiting to travel back home to the newly independent south. Nimuli is one of as many as 700,000 South Sudanese who have become regarded as dark-skinned, often Christian outsiders in mainly Arabic Sudan since the oil-rich south seceded in July. Verbally abused as “insects” by some Sudanese on the streets, they have no citizenship or residential rights and no idea when they are going to be able to travel to South Sudan.

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Themes: State Succession, New States
Regions: East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
Year: 2012