A large number of stranded South Sudanese nationals living in El Haj Yusuf camp on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital Khartoum report deteriorating humanitarian situations due to lack of food and other basic services.

Speaking to Radio Tamazuj, several conflict-affected families blamed humanitarian organizations for neglecting them.

Gabriel Khamis Dimo, a camp leader at El Haj Yusuf block 2, told Radio Tamazuj that the people who are living in the camp are jobless.

He pointed out that most of them were dismissed from government institutions after the independence of South Sudan.

The camp leader decried the absence of humanitarian originations operating in the area, while noting that a group of university students and the Manar Organization did carry out a health campaign at the camp recently.

Khamis said that the announced registration process for South Sudanese nationals has not yet reached them.

“We are confused whether we are treated like Sudanese nationals or foreigners because we are still being called southerners,” he said.

The Sudanese government has pledged to register and recognize around 500,000 South Sudanese living in Sudan so they can work and travel freely.

Last week, a camp leader at Andalus camp told Radio Tamazuj that the issuance of the identification cards for South Sudanese nationals officially begun in their camp.

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Sudan starts issuing ID cards to S Sudanese in Khartoum (9 Feb.)