A number of advocates and civil society activists in Sudan launched a campaign called ‘Ana Sudani’ translated as ‘I am a Sudanese’, in a bid to raise awareness on the plight of families that have not been recognized by the government as citizens.
In a statement during the campaign, activists said children born of a Sudanese mother and South Sudanese father and vice versa are not given identity documents and documents of nationality, yet it is their constitutional right.
The activists said according to their records, about 300 families are affected by what they called exclusion, out of which about 75 families have filed a lawsuit against the minister of interior.
Ihsan Abdul-Aziz, a Sudanese activist at the campaign, told Radio Tamazuj that these families encounter a lot of discrimination.
She said many children from these families have had difficulty in sitting for the national examinations as well as joining universities across the country since they are required to pay school fees as foreigners in US dollars, causing some to drop out.