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Southern children at shelters in the North to be repatriated following secession: official

January 20, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese authorities are in the process of making a list of Southern children staying in homeless shelters in the North so that they are sent to the South in the event the referendum vote comes in favor of secession, an official said today.

Southern children (SMC)
Southern children (SMC)
The director of care management at the Ministry of Development in Khartoum State Mona Mustafa Khogali told the government sponsored Sudanese Media Center (SMC) website that authorities along with NGO’s will count the population of impacted children in coordination with the Government of Southern Sudan.

Khogali said that around 30 social workers are undergoing training to handle these cases emphasizing that the deportation of children will take place only if South opts for independence.

She added that this move is in line with the ministry’s strategy crafted in preparation for the country’s breakup.

The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) party in the North has stressed that Southerners living in the North will be treated as foreigners once the separation materializes and ruled out any prospects for dual citizenship.

Critics say that Sudanese constitution allows for dual citizenship and it bestows birthright citizenship on those born on its soil.

But Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir said in an interview with Al-Jazeera TV recently that Southerners exclusively got the self-determination right and as such they cannot retain citizenship rights in the North unless they pick unity.

Preliminary results show a landslide vote in favor of separation by Southern Sudanese inside the country and abroad.

An estimated two million people died in the 22-year civil war, the latest round in five decades of conflict between the south and the mainly Arab north that has blighted Africa’s largest nation.

The week-long independence vote was the centerpiece of the 2005 peace agreement that ended the war.

(ST)

15 Comments

  • Kolnyang youth
    Kolnyang youth

    Southern children at shelters in the North to be repatriated following secession: official
    let our children come to their home land and repatriation should do their best in the government of South Sudan.

    Anti-tribalism

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  • Marco A. Wek
    Marco A. Wek

    Southern children at shelters in the North to be repatriated following secession: official
    It will be the responsibility of Southern government to make sure these children are taken good of. Let the Southern government welcome it’s children home and make them tomorrow’s leaders.

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  • gais juvan
    gais juvan

    Southern children at shelters in the North to be repatriated following secession: official
    The comment by Omer Al-Basir at Al-jazeera Tv is a clear indication that the Mundukuru (Arabs in the North) does not host Southerners leaving in the North.
    Southern sudan land is vast to host millions of southern coming to the south, Resources and the nature of the southern land is enough to future the southerners, Welcome back southerner in the North. No one has ever denies his/her mother however what image GOD has given to the mother. Your south land is your, even what the situation may be!!!!!.

    Gais Juvan

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  • Ranydit
    Ranydit

    Southern children at shelters in the North to be repatriated following secession: official
    Ncp could not be worry about southerners who have chossen t to remain in the north in this early hours, south sesion will require northerners to have citizenship in 9/07/2011 onward or to reject them but now other northerners are coming to the south withoUt migration document and passport when will you advise them to have those document.
    Do not make life of those people difficult while your people are staying comfortably in the south with their business.
    And thanks

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  • australian
    australian

    Southern children at shelters in the North to be repatriated following secession: official
    Have the children been raised as Muslims in the shelters? Have they been given Muslim names to replace the names they were given at birth? Will they go to an orphanage in the south or be fostered out? I hope they will not be used to spread Islam in the south, but will be converted out of the religion and given back their old names.

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