U.N, Wau state authorities approve home return of over 40,000 IDPs Article Comments (3)
email Email print Print pdfSave separation increase decrease separation separation David Shearer (UN photo) September 14, 2017 (WAU) - The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG), David Shearer said the world body and Wau state authorities have allowed the return of over 40,000 internally displaced persons to their respective homes. Those displaced were sheltered at UN protection of civilian sites. Shearer, while addressing reporters in Wau town on Tuesday, admitted the situation had improved and IDPs could return home. He, however, said the world body would closely work with state authorities to ensure the right conditions are in place for returnees. “We had a very good meeting with the governor today [Tuesday]. UNMISS [UN Mission in South Sudan] is working well and I think the cooperation has improved over the past few weeks. The situation in the town is calm and am not saying it is perfect. Obviously, there are some issues, but the situation is better,” said Shearer. He added, “What we are looking at [now] is trying to establish the right conditions for people to leave the PoCs [Protection of Civilian sites] and come back to their home as we fulfil their conditions.” According to the senior UN official, it will be the mandate of the state government and the world body to ensure the returnees are provided with the necessary humanitarian assistance they require. He said the UN will support South Sudan’s peace revitalization process being overseen by the East African regional bloc (IGAD). “The revitalization of the peace process is something that we are obviously supporting, we want to see that it goes forward,” he said. On the regional protection forces mandated by the UN Security Council, Shearer said government and the world body were closely working together to ensure the forces are deployed in areas affected by the conflict that has displaced millions of people. In August last year, the UN Security Council issued Resolution 2304, allowing deployment of more than 4,000 troops to beef up the existing 13,000 UNMISS force. South Sudan’s Transitional Government of National Unity confirmed its unconditional consent to the deployment of the force in a communiqué to the UN Security Council on November 30, 2016. The regional forces, once deployed, are mandated to protect key installations, facilitate delivery of humanitarian assistance and protect civilians. (ST) Comments on the Sudan Tribune website must abide by the following rules. Contravention of these rules will lead to the user losing their Sudan Tribune account with immediate effect. - No inciting violence - No inappropriate or offensive language - No racism, tribalism or sectarianism - No inappropriate or derogatory remarks - No deviation from the topic of the article - No advertising, spamming or links - No incomprehensible comments Due to the unprecedented amount of racist and offensive language on the site, Sudan Tribune tries to vet all comments on the site. There is now also a limit of 400 words per comment. If you want to express yourself in more detail than this allows, please e-mail your comment as an article to comm...@sudantribune.com Kind regards, The Sudan Tribune editorial team. 14 September 11:06, by Kuch "U.N, Wau state authorities approve home return of over 40,000 IDPs" "The UN" and then "the Wau state govt" approve home return of over 40, 000??? Yay! This is what the US, the US, their UN & their NGOs were after all along in our counry fellows. To always *stoke war & violent & then turn around* as Benign actors giving life saving humanitarian aid, peacekeeping force, donations & human rights>>> repondre message 14 September 11:28, by Kuch to our counry but when in truth, these same hyenas (the US, the UK, their UN & their NGOs) are the same evils behind the wars in our country & against our people in the first place. But anyway. But this is what some people want in our country though. They want to be goaded into these so-called UN POCs so that they would be given free meager UN rations & then they can be used as blackmails>>> repondre message 14 September 11:40, by Kuch and bargaining cards by our enemies. Many South Sudanese refugees were shipped after 2005 comprehensive peace agreement (CPA) from our neighboring countries & were helped by the UN. And also in 2011 & early 2012. Many of our people were shipped back from &Northern Sudan & dumped* in big towns like Juba, Wau, Malakal, Rumbek, Bentiu, Torit, etc. And some of these South Sudanese>>> -- To post to this group, send email to southsudankob@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to southsudankob+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to southsudankob+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to SouthSudanKob@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. 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