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Over 28000 IDPs return to South Sudan

More than 28000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have returned to the south in the last two weeks, the Chairman of the Southern Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, William Chan Achuil said.

Addressing a press conference in Juba, Achuil said that about more than 1500 returnees will be transported through the river from Kosti to the south this week; most of them will go to Jonglei and Greater Equatoria States, he added.

Some 6000 returnees arrived in Aweil town in the last two days. Achuil said that the role of the Southern Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission is to repatriate the internally displaced people to the state capitals but the State governments are fully responsible to transport them to their final destination.

In the meantime, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education Scientific Research and Technology in the Government of Southern Sudan, Mou Mou Athian Kuol, told Radio Miraya that over 1500 students have returned to the South from Khartoum within one week.

The students' return is part of a process to relocate the three southern universities in northern Sudan to the south, Kuol said.