A camp for displaced people who fled from Al-Fasher to Tawila, Sudan, on Monday. The civil war has left millions displaced and thousands killed, with many more trapped in a humanitarian crisis.

Sudanese Canadians are pleading with the Immigration Department to speed up the processing of applications from family members to join them, after a powerful militia captured a besieged Darfur city and videos showed massacres of unarmed men.

Last year, Ottawa set up a temporary humanitarian program to help Sudanese with immediate family in Canada flee a civil war that has left millions displaced and thousands killed in what has been described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

But thousands hoping to join relatives in Canada are still waiting for their applications to be dealt with by Im

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