Refugees – 2005

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Refugees – 2005

2005

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The 2005 CPA provides that the parties were committed to render and facilitate humanitarian assistance to war affected persons including refugees and their rights to return. The parties were also committed to assisting returning refugees to start a normal, stable and safe life in their respective communities. At the time of the signing of CPA in 2005, the UNHCR estimated some 693,632 Sudanese sought asylum status in different part of the world.1 The UNMIS estimate was over 500,000 refugees in neighboring countries.2

Over half a million former refugees were expected to return to southern Sudan.3 According to the U.N. Secretary General’s report, there had been over 500,000 spontaneous returns in the Sudan.4

The UNHCR had helped the first group of up to 150 southern Sudanese refugees return home from Kenya, which was said the beginning of the home-going of about 560,000 refugees from southern Sudan living in seven neighboring countries.5 The UNHCR estimated that some 70,000 to 80,000 South Sudanese refugees went home on their own from exile abroad in 2005.6

  1. “2005 UNHCR Statistical Yearbook-Sudan,” UNHCR, 2007, October 26, 2011, http://www.unhcr.org/4641bec40.html, accessed.
  2. “Sudan IDP & Refugee Returns, Reintegration Operations Statistical Overview,” accessed October 26, 2011, http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004CE90B/(httpDocuments)/FEED5CE5022A706CC125753E003F3046/$file/Returns_RRR-Jan09.pdf.
  3. “Report of the Secretary General on the Sudan,” United Nations (S/2005/57), January 31, 2005.
  4. “Report of the Secretary General on the Sudan,” United Nations (S/2005/821), December 21, 2005.
  5. “UN to Help First Group of Southern Sudan Refugees Return Home,” Xinhua General News Service, December 13, 2005.
  6. “Sudan; Agreement Signed for Refugee Return from Kenya,” Africa News, January 13, 2006.