A Canadian man tried for months to get his sister out of war-torn Sudan. She died waiting [Video]

When the federal government launched a program in late February to reunite people in war-torn Sudan with their families in Canada, Seif Omran Mansour was ready.

The West Vancouver civil engineer got up at the crack of dawn and waited at his computer so he would be first in line to apply on behalf of his two sisters and their families.

Seven months later, Mansour is still waiting. And his eldest sister is dead.

“If the process was a little bit efficient and also fast, expedited, she would have been in Canada and she would have never been through this,” Mansour told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.

“This is injustice, and that injustice and the sluggishness of this process, is costing life.”

Monsour, whose story was first reported by the Globe and Mail, is one of thousands of Sudanese Canadians who are wrestling with red tape trying to bring their families to safety through the …