The purpose of this report is to provide information relevant for international protection status determination, including refugee status and subsidiary protection, and for use in the development of the EUAA Country Guidance on Sudan.
The general reference period should be 1 February 2024 – 30 November 2024 for the topics already addressed in the aforementioned Country Focus report. For other topics the reference period will be 15 April 2023 – 30 November 2024.
Research should cover the following:
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Country overview
This section should provide a general overview of the crisis background and the current political situation as well as information on the State ability and willingness to provide protection, the rule of law and the administration of justice. Furthermore, it should address the situation of human rights at country level.
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Treatment of selected profiles
The research should cover the following profiles:
Political opponents
- Political opposition: overview including who can be considered as a political opponent
- Community leaders, lawyers and human rights activists
- Resistance committees
- Political party members and other perceived opponents (FFC-CC and FFC-Democratic Block)
- Islamists/alleged Islamists
- Protestors
- Defectors from the government
Conscripts, draft evaders, forced recruitment to armed groups
Journalists and other media personnel
- Humanitarian and health personnel
- Aid workers
- Healthcare personnel
Ethnic groups
- General overview of the ethnic composition of the country
- Ethnic conflict related profiling:
o Non-Arab/African in Darfur (update)
o Nuba in South Kordofan - Women and girls
- General overview of the situation of women and girls in Sudan
- Sexual violence and conflict-related sexual violence
- Forced/early marriage and conflict-related forced/early marriage
- Trafficking in human beings
- FGM
Children
- General overview of the situation of children in Sudan
- Child soldiers
- Labour exploitation
- Trafficking in human beings
LGBTIQ persons (including the legal framework)
Key socio-economic situation with focus on Port Sudan
The chapters dedicated to socio-economic situation in Port Sudan
Socio-economic overview
- Economic situation
- Employment
- Poverty
- Food security
- Housing, water, and sanitation
- Health care
- Education
- Situation of specific groups, where relevant (e.g. women who are divorced/single/widowed, children, orphans, IDPs, returnees, etc.)
Displacements and returns
Mobility and admittance
- Freedom of movement, including impact of ethnic/religious background, gender, place of origin, age, (perceived) political affiliation
- Civil documentation needed for return and moving in Port Sudan
- Airport and flights connections (internal and international)
- Information on number and location of checkpoints, procedures at checkpoints (including possible problems for specific categories of people)
- Requirements for settling in the defined area for returnees from abroad
- Information on accessibility from Port Sudan airport to other locations
- Restrictions on access and return to certain areas (Port Sudan)
- Administrative requirements for settling in Port Sudan