The country is already facing the additional burden of accommodating the more than 200,000 South Sudan returnees fleeing Sudan war, while seeking funds to prepare for the polls. Read: UN to advise South Sudan on poll preparationsThe report is based on the commission’s independent investigations in 2023. It is a tragic irony that in an independent South Sudan, its liberators, now in government, are intolerant of public scrutiny, discussion of critical views, and political opposition. In the meantime, as nearly 300,000 returnees continue to stream back to South Sudan from Khartoum and other areas, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warns of a looming hunger emergency for South Sudanese fleeing conflict in Sudan. Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) says that since the fighting erupted in Sudan in April, around 290,000 people have entered South Sudan – 80 percent of them through the Joda border in Upper Nile state.

Source: Daily Nation October 06, 2023 23:02 UTC