Sudanese Quebecers were excluded from a program to rescue family members. Then, they were told to wait [Video]

Mayada Ageeb has been holding protests in downtown Montreal every two weeks, calling for Quebec and Canada to do more to rescue the families of Sudanese Canadians from a war that has been raging for nearly two years and which has displaced more than 12 million people. 

The situation in Sudan has been labelled the world’s worst humanitarian crisis by the African Union, and a resolution of the conflict appears a ways away.

Ageeb is one of a few hundred Sudanese Quebecers who have so far been excluded from a humanitarian pathway program to help direct family members escape to Canada. 

She is hoping to eventually sponsor her aunt, four cousins, an uncle, his wife and two children, as well as her grandmother. 

All are scattered throughout Sudan and neighbouring countries. Several have been displaced many times, including her aunt and four children who are currently on the move and …