On 7 February, rights group Refugees International described as “intolerable” what it said was Sudan’s plan to “round up and deport hundreds of thousands” of such people.

“First, the individuals targeted by this plan have a legitimate claim to Sudanese citizenship, since most have lived in Sudan their entire lives, and there is currently no way for them to apply for South Sudanese citizenship,” said the group’s Stateless Programme Manager Sarnata Reynolds.

“Second, forcing men, women and children into deportation camps and shipping them off to a country that many have never seen would be a legal and moral disaster,” Reynolds added.

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