A new truck arrives in the South Sudanese town of Renk, packed with dozens of elderly men, women and children, their exhausted faces betraying the strain of their traumatic journey out of war-ravaged Sudan. Renk is just 10km from Sudan, where fighting broke out in April last year between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan …
Some 42,000 refugees and 26,000 family members are still waiting to hear if their asylum applications will be granted, according to new figures from the IND immigration service. “The waiting lists have been growing for some time and because the pressure on the IND remains high, the waiting times will continue to go up,” the department said in an update. …
