Intensive campaigns to arrest aliens in Khartoum State

Khartoum State has intensified campaigns to arrest foreigners who violate residency conditions after the deadline for regularizing their status has expired.

The head of the committee implementing the outcomes of the foreign presence workshop in Khartoum State, Ihab Hashim Ismail, said that the campaigns came after foreigners have become a security threat after participating in the fighting alongside the rebel militia against the armed forces and citizens, adding that the most of them violate international laws and conventions that regulate asylum and determine the locations of refugees in camps outside cities, pointing to the record of foreigners in committing crimes and not respecting the law of the host country, calling on citizens not to shelter aliens.

For his part, the Director of the Foreigners Directorate at Karari Police, Colonel Adel Mahjoub Al-Zubair, said that these campaigns have been ongoing for some time and will continue, stressing that Wednesday’s campaign achieved great results in arresting foreigners.

In the same context, the campaign commander, Maj. Gen. Mohamed Al-Mustafa Mohamed, spoke about the details of what is happening in the campaigns, indicating that the campaign did not stop at violations of residency conditions only, but that the criminal record includes crimes related to theft and alcohol production. According to the statement of the Director of the Criminal Court, the presence of foreigners during the war is surprising.

In the first days of the war, foreigners left Khartoum State, noting that most of those who remained did not have identification papers and were trying to regularize their status in devious ways.