12 families return to Renk from Sudan: official

Dozens of conflict-displaced women and children from Fashoda returned to Renk town in South Sudan’s Northern Upper Nile State last week, according a local official.

Dozens of conflict-displaced women and children from Fashoda returned to Renk town in South Sudan’s Northern Upper Nile State last week, according a local official.

The adviser on peace and reconciliation in Fashoda, Abdullah Kur, told Radio Tamazuj on Friday that about 12 families that fled to Sudan’s white Nile state  camps due violence in Fashoda returned to Renk.

Kur said that he received the refugees who crossed Joda to Renk. The government official further said the returnees will soon go to their areas of origin in Fashoda.

He urged all armed groups to join the peace process.