Sudan: Overland return south of displaced resumes December 1, 2007
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Sudan: Overland return south of displaced resumes
As part of the Joint Organized Return Plan coordinated and implemented by the Government of National Unity (GoNU), the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS), the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and IOM, the first overland IOM convoy assisting South Sudanese to return home since the end of this year’s rainy season will depart early morning on 1 December from Omdurman El Salam Departure Centre on the outskirts of Khartoum. Buses and trucks will carry returnees and their belongings back home to Renk County in Upper Nile State.
Kenya-Sudan: UN agency to repatriate 3,000 Sudanese by December November 30, 2007
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NAIROBI, 29 November 2007 (IRIN) – The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, will repatriate at least 3,000 Sudanese from the Kakuma camp in northern Kenya by end-December, an official told IRIN.
Outlook for IDPs remains bleak November 30, 2007
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In southern Sudan, around 140,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) returned to their homes in the first six months of 2007, adding to more than one million IDPs estimated to have returned since the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the central government and the southern-based Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army. The CPA marked the end of the 20-year civil war estimated to have caused the death of up to two million people and the internal displacement of up to four million. Despite improved security, a number of unfulfilled provisions, such as the withdrawal of central government troops from a contested oil-rich border area, may still lead to renewed war and displacement.
30,000 Southern Sudanese return home from Ethiopia November 30, 2007
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November 23, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — Close to 30,000 Southern Sudanese who fled the country’s 21-year long north-south war are to return home from camps in neighbouring Ethiopia during 2008 as part of an agreement between the governments of the two countries and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), signed on 22 November in Khartoum.
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For Immediate Release November 21, 2007
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Friday November 16, 2007 – Denver, Colorado – The Sixteenth of May Foundation announces its formation as a non-profit international organization whose vision is to help return and reintegrate Sudanese citizens displaced by two decades of civil war. The Foundation’s mission is to work with the people of Sudan and the international community to help rebuild essential infrastructure, schools, medical facilities and services vital to those returning to their villages.
