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Refugees – 2011

As South Sudan decided to became an independent state in a referendum, relief agencies had expected that some 800,000 northerners would return to the South Sudan, of which 200,000 had already returned by early February.¹ Once South Sudan became an independent state on 9 July 2011, the UNHCR, in its press release, stated that approximately 350,000 former refugees had returned to South Sudan over the past six years, and that the thousands of southerners were joining them from elsewhere in Sudan.² This suggests that not all refugees returned to Sudan.

In addition, the refugee provisions of the CPA became obsolete as southern Sudan became the independent state of South Sudan.

1. “800,000 to Return to South Sudan from North: UNHCR,” Agence France Presse, February 11, 2011.
2. “UNHCR welcomes Republic of South Sudan,” Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), July 10, 2011.