Tuesday, 16 October 2012 08:44 Mabior Mach
The International Office for Migration (IOM), is organizing the transportation of an estimated 1,100 returnees stranded in Renk, Upper Nile State.
The returnees will be transported to Juba, with their luggage on two barges.
IOM Information and Communication Officer, Samantha Donkin, said the barges are expected to leave Renk sometime next week.
"At the moment we have just over fourteen thousand four hundred stranded registered within Renk, over the past three weeks we have seen mobile units of returnees arriving at Renk, just one hundred and eighty five returnees and in that same time period over the past three weeks we had nine hundred and eighty one returnees departing the transit site at Renk and those returnees have left for areas within Upper Nile State," Donkin told Radio Miraya on Tuesday.
Donkin also added that starting next week, IOM will begin transporting an estimated 300 returnees from the Juba transit site to their home areas in the Greater Bahr el Ghazal region.