{"id":176756,"date":"2018-02-26T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/amendments-to-sudanese-nationality-act-approved\/"},"modified":"2018-02-26T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T13:59:00","slug":"amendments-to-sudanese-nationality-act-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/amendments-to-sudanese-nationality-act-approved","title":{"rendered":"Amendments to Sudanese Nationality Act approved"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sudanese Council of Ministers passed a bill amending the Sudanese Nationality Act on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under the chairmanship of First Vice-President and Prime Minister, Lt. Gen. Bakri Hasan Saleh, the Ministers approved the amendments for 2018.<\/p>\n

Under the new amendments, citizens with a Sudanese mother and a South Sudanese father, have the right to enjoy Sudanese citizenship, as do Sudanese having other nationalities.<\/p>\n

Interior Minister Hamid Manan submitted the amendments to the year 2018 in order to remove the contradictions between the country’s Nationality Law and the Constitution, under which people with a Sudanese parent are entitled to obtain the Sudanese nationality.<\/p>\n

The 2005 Interim Constitution of Sudan stipulates that every child of a Sudanese mother has the right to enjoy the Sudanese nationality. <\/p>\n

Secession<\/strong><\/p>\n

On July 9, 2011, the southern part of Sudan seceded from Sudan, by which the newly created South Sudan became the world’s youngest nation.<\/p>\n

A few days before, Sudan’s Council of Ministers had passed a bill that amended the Sudanese Nationality Act of 2011, and by which South Sudanese would lose Sudanese citizenship<\/a>, even in case one of their parents was a Sudanese national.<\/p>\n

Six years later however, the Sudanese Supreme Court ruled that the Sudanese nationality, withdrawn after the secession of South Sudan, had to be restored<\/a> to South Sudanese citizen Adel Bur'i Ramadan. <\/p>\n

Ramadan had opened a case against the loss of his sudanese nationality and gained support from South Sudanese who encountered similar problems.<\/p>\n

In August 2017<\/a>, Sudan’s Constitutional Court granted Sudanese citizenship to children born of Sudanese and South Sudanese parents.<\/p>\n

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