From Sudan-Nimuli struggled to rise from a rope bed to greet pastor James Mading Bui at an Episcopal church where she lives in a suburb of Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, waiting to travel back home to the newly independent south.
Nimuli is one of as many as 700,000 South Sudanese who have become regarded as dark-skinned, often Christian outsiders in mainly Arabic Sudan since the oil-rich south seceded in July. Verbally abused as “insects” by some Sudanese on the streets, they have no citizenship or residential rights and no idea when they are going to be able to travel to South Sudan.
“It has been a really tough time for us,” Nimuli, a 49- year-old mother of four, said in a May 19 interview at the church, refusing to give her last name for fear of retribution from the Sudanese authorities. “We’ve been waiting for months, unclear of our fate, running out of money and options, and now with no legal status.”
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