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HIV-positive foreigners will be deported

    NAIROBI

    The Sudanese government has instituted measures to regulate the stay of foreigners in the country in order to limit the spread of AIDS, ‘Al-Ra’y al-Amm’ newspaper reported on Wednesday. The Ministry of Interior had instructed the Immigration Department to issue residency permits to foreigners only after they had been found HIV-negative, the paper said. Any foreigner found to be HIV-positive would be deported, the paper quoted the head of the Immigration Department, Brigadier Bashir Ahmad Bashir, as saying.

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