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Thousands Heading Back to Southern Sudan Ahead of Independence Vote – UN

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–21 December 2010 – With the referendum on independence for Southern Sudan just weeks away, the United Nations refugee agency reported today that thousands of southerners living in the north are heading back by road, rail, barge and plane in both organized and spontaneous returns.

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Nearly 55,000 southern Sudanese have returned in the past few weeks to the southern states, mainly to Unity State, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR

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