Children play at an IDP camp in Bor, South Sudan, on February 27, 2014. Over 140,000 South Sudan refugees have returned home six months after the signing of the peace deal in October 2018. PHOTO | AFP
Over 140,000 South Sudan refugees who fled the country at the height of the civil war have returned home six months after a peace deal was signed between warring factions of President Salva Kiir and Dr Riek Machar.
The returnees, according to South Sudan’s Ministry for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management came from Uganda, Ethiopia, Central African Republic and Sudan.