Out of more than 400 IDPs who registered their intention to leave Bor PoC site, over 250 voluntarily departed for their places of origin in Fangak, and arrived on 17 December, a UN agency said.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest update that the return followed a series of engagements and meetings between the Bor Solutions Working Group (SWG) and IDPs who showed interest to return to their area of origin.
It further said the authorities and partners pledged to support the resettlement of the returnees. “As part of the return package, humanitarian partners have provided one-month food rations to departing IDPs,” it said.
The PoC sites have been offering protection to people in South Sudan since December 2013, when the civil war broke out in the world's youngest country.