A large numbers of returnee students stuck at the camps in Upper Nile complain that the delay in their onward deportation has hindered their studies.

Basic, secondary and university students have accompanied their families from north Sudan to Upper Nile where they await onward transportation to their areas in different states of South Sudan.

Students complain that they have had to stop their studies from the moment they came from different northern cities in the period before and after separation on 9 July 2011. Since that time they have been stuck in the camps Abayok and Mina on the outskirts of Renk town, and in neighborhoods of Malakal, living in conditions they describe as terrible.

Students who were studying at Juba University faculties in Khartoum before and after separation explained that the university colleges were transferred to the headquarters in Juba. After some delay, the classes there have resumed and their classmates in Juba are now having exams while they are stuck at the returnee camps in Upper Nile waiting for deportation for nearly five months since their arrival from Kosti port.

They pointed out that there is no hope for a deportation soon, and the organizations and authorities in Upper Nile are giving promises, and they assured that there are students who were studying at Juba University in Khartoum from different batches in most camps in Upper Nile waiting for deportation and did not get a chance to reach Juba and resume their studies, asking concerned parties to assist them.