Thousands of stranded S. Sudanese to be flown home
Sudanese children roam at a camp Andalusia for internally displaced people from southern Sudan. By Ashraf Shazly (AFP/File)
KHARTOUM (AFP) - Up to 15,000 ethnic South Sudanese who have been encamped in crowded conditions in Sudan will be flown to South Sudan, avoiding a May 20 expulsion deadline by local authorities, the IOM said on Saturday.
"We hope to start within a week," Jill Helke, who heads the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) office in Sudan, told AFP.