The 3,500 South Sudanese returnees stranded in Sudan’s Kosti arrived in Renk County on Monday, 3 November.
Sources told Radio Tamazuj that the Sudanese authorities had organised a farewell ceremony in Kosti under the auspices of Sudan’s Minister of Interior Affairs, Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid, and the White Nile State Governor, Yusuf El Shambali. The ceremony was attended by South Sudan ambassador in Khartoum, Mayan Dut Wol, and the South Sudanese Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner.
In a press statement the Sudan’s Director of the Internally Displacement Centre reported that the Episcopal Church in Kosti, headed by Pastor John Goc, has exerted great efforts to repatriate the South Sudan returnees to their homeland.
General El Sir El Omda of the Repatriation Commission will transport about 4,000 South Sudan returnees who are still living in the open in the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
The Sudanese official said that the good ties and diplomatic relations and the re-opening of the borders between the two Sudans will simplify repatriation of the South Sudanese still stranded in Sudan.
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