Migration: Federal government is getting Sudanese refugees by plane

141 refugees were brought to Germany from Sudan and other crisis areas. The machine, which had started in the Egyptian capital Cairo, landed in Hanover in the morning. According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, refugees in need of protection were on board, mostly Sudanese women – including 77 minors. According to the Ministry, they were proposed by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) for admission via the EU resettlement program.

It is primarily families and single mothers with children. A special protection requirement had been found for them – for example on the basis of torture and violent experiences, medical needs or impending detention in the first state.

During the resettlement procedure, the UNHCR proposes particularly in need of protection to the intake countries. German representatives of the authorities then carry out surveys and security check on site.

Germany had promised a total of 13,100 places for the refugee work and the EU Commission, which supported the recordings financially, for 2024 and 2025. Of this, 5,061 people had entered according to data from the UNHCR. This also includes humanitarian recordings of Syrian refugees from Turkey who agreed EU and Türkiye in 2016.

No further flights planned for the time being

“Until the future federal government makes decisions about the future procedure, the resettlement procedures are currently exposed to,” said a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior on request. There are exceptions that are very advanced and that – as with the current admission – there are already concrete obligations. Further resettlement recordings are currently not planned.

The Union and the SPD had determined in their exploratory paper to end voluntary federal recording programs as far as possible and not to put on new programs. Discussions have recently mainly been around 2,600 Afghans who already have a promise for a recording and are waiting for their departure to Germany in Pakistan.

Controversy to recording Afghans

“The admission commitments are final administrative acts – and human lives hang on them,” said Nele Allenberg from the German Institute for Human Rights (Dimr). A change of government does not change that. Many of these people would have sold their belongings in Afghanistan to trust in the promise.