South Sudan
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Ian Paisley Jnr (North Antrim, DUP)
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent reports he has received on South Sudan’s efforts to receive South Sudanese migrants from Sudan.
Alan Duncan (Minister of State, International Development; Rutland and Melton, Conservative)
I have been asked to reply
on behalf of the Department for International Development.
The British embassy in Juba receives regular reporting from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). So far, in 2012 roughly 113,000 South Sudanese
have returned to South Sudan. Recent efforts to support this return
include a barge movement, organised by humanitarian agencies, for around
2,700 people from Upper Nile State (where most returnees arrive in South Sudan) to Juba.
