The commissioner of al-Kalakla South locality in the Sudan’s capital Khartoum has ordered the eviction of South Sudanese from displacement camps in Khartoum, Athor Chol Athor, a leader of the camps said.

Athor said the stranded South Sudanese were given one week by al-Kalakla locality commissioner Maj General Jalal al-Deen al-Sheikh to leave the camps without giving them any alternative places for their relocation.

“At this morning the commissioner of al-Kalakla has come to us and asked me what we are doing here. I told him this is a displacement camp. He told me we don’t want any displacement camp here," Athor said. “He gave us one week to evict the camp and told us if we did not implement his order he will come with tractors to destroy the camp."

Meanwhile, the Khartoum security committee announced during a meeting chaired by commissioner Ahmed Ali Osman that it will implement the cabinet’s decision to treat South Sudanese nationals in Sudan as foreigners.

The committee stressed to commit the South Sudanese to the nationality and immigration laws, directing the authorities to review the displacement camps and recount them and to stop unregulated flows to residential neighborhoods.

This action comes despite many Sudanese activists rejecting the move and calls by South Sudan’s authorities for treatment of its citizens in a dignified manner according to international norms and traditions.

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