15,000 internally displaced persons who fled due to escalating conflict in 2013 have returned to their homes in South Sudan’s Fashoda state, a government official said.

Martin Ayang, head of the border and peaceful co-existence commission in Fashoda state, told Radio Tamazuj on Tuesday that his state has received more than 15,000 internally displaced persons  within a period of three months.

He called on aid agencies to assist the needy people in the area.