Sudan suspends expulsion of Southerners in White Nile for two week
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May 2, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan’s minister of social affairs, Amira
Fadil announced Wednesday that South Sudanese in White Nile are
allowed to remain the neighboring state up to 20 May cancelling an
expulsion deadline fixed by the governor.
International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and UN humanitarian
affairs representatives in Khartoum called on the Sudanese government
to review a decision of White Nile governor to expulse over 12.000
South Sudanese in the state capital Kosti on May 5, as deadline.
Sudan blocked the barges used by IOM to transport the South Sudanese
from Kosti to Juba saying South Sudanese army use them to transport
troops and military equipments to the border areas.
Amira told the official SUNA that the extension was decided after a
meeting with the While Nile governor Youssef al-Shambali. She further
pointed out that the IOM and UN will transport them by road to Renk,
Upper Nile state.
White Nile governor, al-Shambali last week refused to extend the
deadline he fixed stressing that the Southerners who have been living
in makeshift shelters threatens the security and the environment of
the state capital.
The governor took his decision after the occupation of Heglig in the
neighbouring South Kordofan by the South Sudanese army.
The occupation of the oil region triggered nationalist feeling in the
north and even some radical Islamist youth burnt a church in the
suburb of the capital Khartoum.
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