[Daily Nation (Kenya)] South Sudan has asked its public institutions, non-governmental organizations and businesses operating in the country to sack Sudanese nationals.The decision followed a May 26 circular issued by the Ministry of Labour, Public Service and Human Resource Development to put the Sudanese employees on one-month notice for having lost status following the independence of South Sudan on July 9, 2011.
Ms Hellen Achiro, the undersecretary for Labour, said the positions must be declared vacant and re-advertised for South Sudanese to apply.
"It is a right of [South Sudanese] nationals to get those positions. There should be no anyway a Sudanese would occupy jobs for South Sudanese," Ms Achiro said.
"For them to stay here, they must legalise their status. If they would like to be refugees for those from war zone, they should apply so that they are legalised as refugees ... for those who want to do business, they have to reapply and register afresh so that South Sudanese become part of those companies," she added.
Tens, if not hundreds, of Sudanese from the far north and eastern Sudan, Darfur and the warring states of Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan states still hold their jobs as "nationals" despite the split of the country a year ago.
The said Sudanese remained on the lam in UN agencies, foreign companies and local businesses without fresh work permits.