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South Sudan opened its second Nationality Directorate
on November 28, and the government expects that offices will be opened in all
10 South Sudanese states by the new year. This is a tremendous step for the
world's newest country and should greatly decrease the risk of statelessness.
The scale of this most recent failure demands a rethinking of the way MONUSCO is implementing its protection mandate. The current system
is, quite simply, not working; pretending that it is only serves to make
the problem worse.
In a darkly-lit house on a dusty, garbage-strewn street on the outskirts
of Bamako, an elderly couple and a man in a white robe are seated on
the floor.
Friends of Refugees International came together on Thursday, October 25,
at the beautiful Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, DC.
One would hope that the conferral of citizenship would help prevent
further persecution of the Rohingya and staunch the spread of burnings
and displacement in Rakhine State. However, the government will need to
take many more steps before this can happen.
