1,000 IDP'S Returnees From Kosti Arrive The South

9th March 2011 – (Khartoum) –At least 1 thousand Southern Sudanese returnees who left Kosti in the White Nile State over the weekend arrived Kaka area of Upper Nile State on Tuesday.

Last week the International Organization for Migration, I-O-M, started transporting six thousand returnees from Kosti to their homes of origin in Upper Nile and Equatoria states.

The Deputy Chairman of South Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission and the Coordinator of the organized return program in GoSS, Reverend William Chan spoke exclusively to SRS from Khartoum on Wednesday.

[Rev. William Chan]: “The number of those who left Kosti for Malakal on barges was 2 thousand eight hundred and ninety three people they are heading to Kaka, Kodok and Malakal they left three days ago on the 5th of March and they were supposed to spend three days. The people of Kaka arrived yesterday. I spoke with the people on the ground there upon their arrival; the Commissioner of kaka County phoned me and informed me that he has received his people; they are about one thousand who arrived in Kaka.”

Reverend Chan furthers said that GoSS and I-O-M will be transporting 22 thousand I-D-P-s stranded at the roadsides in Khartoum to their homes of origin in southern Sudan.