Lakes: More returnees arrive Yirol West County
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July 26, 2011 (JUBA) - Lakes state authorities in Yirol West County
have received ten Lorries loaded with Southern returnees on Monday as
southerners continue to move to South Sudan after the country’s
independence this month.
Since independence North Sudan has said that all South Sudanese would
have to apply for residency and would not be able to stay past April
2012, nine months after secession.
The criteria used to define citizenship or residency has not been
defined and it one of issues, along with oil, debt and borders that
are being discussed by the two parties in Addis Ababa.
The new returnees were recently stranded in Shambe port facing
difficulties finding transport to their respective locations across
the eight counties of Lakes state.
The returnee children, elderly people and women are the first
returnees to arrive Yirol West County since South Sudan declared
independence on July 9.
The transport of returnees was carried out by the International
Organization for Migration (IOM). The returnees arrive Yirol West town
at 5pm on Monday.
Thousands of well wishers people turned out to welcome the returnees
to Yirol West town.
Yirol West County commissioner Makur Kulang Liei has instructured his
county administrators to allow places for returnees to be accommodated
until they can be integrated with their relatives.
Kulang said that “we have received 400 returnees who just arrive from
Shambe Port yesterday evening and we have accommodated them near Yirol
West hospital”.
Returnees shared their happiness at being reunited with lost friends
and families after up to two decades apart.
Sudan second North-South civil war (1983-2005) killed around two
million and displaced four million according to UN estimates. A peace
deal six years ago allowed South Sudan to secede through a referendum
in January.
(ST)
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