Growing number of Sudanese want to emigrate

09/08/2015 13:51

Last week, more than 12,000 Sudanese applied for an exit visa, according to the secretary-general of the Expatriates’ Affairs Secretariat in Khartoum.
Suwar Majed Haj told the press on Thursday that the number of Sudanese who want to emigrate is showing a significant increase. Suwar Majed Haj told the press on Thursday that the number of Sudanese who want to immigrate is showing a significant increase. He said that some 4,500 electronic passports were issued “during the past three days”.

Last week, more than 12,000 Sudanese applied for an exit visa, according to the secretary-general of the Expatriates’ Affairs Secretariat in Khartoum.

Suwar Majed Haj told the press on Thursday that the number of Sudanese who want to leave the country is showing a significant increase. He said that some 4,500 electronic passports were issued "during the past three days".

Statistics show that between 1975 and 2009 about 11 million Sudanese left the country. 85 percent of them emigrated after President Omar Al Bashir took power in a military coup in 1989.

Sudan ranks first among Arab countries whose citizens emigrate, according to a survey conducted by the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies in Doha in 2013.