A Sudanese woman who fled El Fasher at the Al Afad camp for displaced people in the town of Al Dabba, northern Sudan, Tuesday. Since Sudan plunged into a civil war in 2023, an estimated 12 million have fled their homes in what the UN has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

The Immigration Minister was urged by MPs and a former justice minister to fast track the applications of Sudanese fleeing a violent conflict to join family in Canada, as the federal government came under pressure to do more to help victims of atrocities in the war-torn country .

MPs, including former Speaker Greg Fergus, on Tuesday launched an all-party parliamentary group on Sudan , which will examine atrocities in Darfur carried out by a powerful militia targeting ethnic groups.

At a press conference

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