The chairman of the People’s Committee for Peacebuilding in South Sudan James Aguer says they have estimated that thousands of houses of people who fled their homes in Juba at the outbreak of the civil war in 2013 are still occupied by squatters.

Speaking to Radio Tamazuj, Aguer revealed that 3,515 houses of displaced people in the UN protection camps have been occupied by other people including members of the organized forces. He pointed that his committee is working in coordination with the government and UN agencies on relocation of IDPs.

Aguer, who is also an MP, added that there are efforts to find alternatives places for squatters who occupied houses to prepare for the displaced people to return to their houses.

“We are now carrying out registration process for squatter who occupied houses and displaced people themselves in order for us to relocate the squatters to other places so that the displaced can return to their houses,” said Aguer.