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I am number four legacies5/24/2023 Several Sudanese citizens told CNN they cannot flee the conflict-ridden country because their passports are held at evacuated Western embassies. People cross into Egypt from Sudan on April 27, 2023. The Sudanese nationals who spoke to CNN accused the embassies of neglect, obstructing their legal passage out of the country, where the violence has claimed at least 512 lives. In one case, a Swedish official suggested that the Sudanese visa applicant use a photocopy of his passport in lieu of his travel document. In some cases, embassy workers advised people to “apply for a new passport” despite the violence grinding Sudanese government services to a halt, according to screenshots seen by CNN. Most Western embassies in Sudan were evacuated a week into the fighting, leaving many Sudanese visa applicants without their travel documents and in legal limbo. A growing number of people say they are stranded in Sudan because Western embassy workers fled the conflict-ridden country without returning passports that were surrendered during visa applications.ĭiplomats from at least three Western missions have been unable to grant access to travel documents belonging to Sudanese nationals, according to nine testimonies reviewed by CNN.
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