Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees who fled the ongoing civil war at home have found themselves stranded in Morocco, caught between an absent national asylum law and a bureaucratic system ill-equipped to protect them. Morocco outlined plans for a formal asylum law in 2013, but more than a decade later it has yet to be enacted, leaving the UN refugee agency UNHCR to handle refugee registration and status determinations by default — an arrangement one advocacy group described as "a sovereign state effectively delegating a core protection function to an international agency, not by explicit legal design, but by default." Of more than 22,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers in Morocco, just 80 have accessed formal employment, there is no state-run shelter system, and only around 100 have been submitted for resettlement abroad in 2025, leaving most to endure prolonged legal precarity with little prospect of integration or a safe route forward.