Sudan ready to receive refugees fleeing conflict in South Sudan: official
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December 31, 2014 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese government has announced
readiness to receive refugees from South Sudan according to the
international conventions and neighbourhood rights.
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A South Sudanese woman with a child sits on December 25, 2013 at the
main hospital in Bor which troops loyal to former vice-president Riek
Machar re-captured on Tuesday December 31. (Photo AFP/Samir Bol)
South Sudan’s clashes erupted on 15 December with fighting among a
group of soldiers in the capital, Juba. The violence quickly spread to
several states, cleaving the nation along the ethnic faultline of
rebel leader Riek Machar’s Nuer and President Salva Kiir’s Dinka.
The UNHCR said in a statement issued on Tuesday that as of 30 December
"several hundred" of South Sudanese arrived in Sudan, 4693 arrived in
Ethiopia, and 950 arrived in Kenya.
"The fighting and insecurity mean that in some cases UNHCR staff and
partners have limited or no access to border areas, such as between
South Sudan and Sudan", the UNHCR underlined to explain its failure to
provide the exact number of South Sudanese refugees who fled to Sudan.
Sudan’s Commissioner-General for humanitarian relief, Sulieman
Abdel-Rahman, stated in Khartoum that the technical committee for
humanitarian relief has discussed with the security committee in South
Kordofan state the humanitarian situation on the border between the
two countries and the flow of refugees from South Sudan to border
areas.
He pointed that the concerned parties have embarked on developing the
initial measures for receiving southerners fleeing conflict zones as
well as making the necessary precautions to provide the basic
services.
Abdel-Rahman said that southern refugees would be accommodated in safe
zones, pointing that the technical committee paid similar visits to
the White Nile and Sinnar states for the same purpose.
However, the governor of South Kordofan state, Adam Al-Faki, expressed
concern over the tense situation on borders with South Sudan as the
government and the rebel Sudan Revolutionary Forces (SRF) wage war
against each other in the region.
He said that state’s security committee developed the necessary
precautions to protect the state against attacks of the rebel groups.
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