{"id":62119,"date":"2026-10-22T05:25:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=62119"},"modified":"2026-10-22T05:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:25:40","slug":"european-union-31000-sudanese-nationals-applied-for-asylum-over-17-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/european-union-31000-sudanese-nationals-applied-for-asylum-over-17-months\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union: 31,000 Sudanese Nationals Applied for Asylum Over 17 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) revealed on Wednesday that approximately 31,000 Sudanese nationals had applied for asylum in European Union countries over a period of 17 months, with 11,000 applications still awaiting a decision.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a report, the agency said that \u201cSudanese nationals submitted approximately 31,000 asylum applications in European Union countries and countries associated with the EU asylum system between March 2025 and August 2026.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The report explained that Greece and France received more than three-quarters of the applications submitted, with 13,000 applications in Greece and 11,000 in France.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It noted that EU member states and associated countries issued approximately 20,000 first-instance decisions on asylum applications submitted by Sudanese nationals. Greece and France topped the list in terms of the number of decisions, with 8,000 in Greece and 7,900 in France.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to the report, as of early August 2026, more than 11,000 asylum applications submitted by Sudanese nationals were still awaiting first-instance decisions, including approximately 5,400 applications in Greece.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The agency stated that asylum applications from Sudanese nationals began to rise following the outbreak of the war in April 2023, before increasing sharply in 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It added that the upward trend continued during the first eight months of 2026, when approximately 15,000 applications were submitted, representing an increase of nearly two-thirds compared with the same period in 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) revealed on Wednesday that approximately 31,000 Sudanese nationals had applied for asylum in European Union countries over a period of 17 months, with 11,000 applications still awaiting a decision. In a report, the agency said that \u201cSudanese nationals submitted approximately 31,000 asylum applications in European Union countries and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62122,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62119\/revisions\/62122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}