Sudan: refugees to be repatriated over 5 years

Passion of the Present reports that the UN is to facilitate the return of 60,000 refugees to the South of Sudan by May next yea ^[1]r………..”The move started Saturday and it could take up to five years to repatriate all 560,000 southern Sudanese refugees in seven neighboring countries — Central African Republic, Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda — said Jean-Marie Fakhouri, the head of operations in Sudan for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.”