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 progress in establishing camps in Sudan to temporarily
accommodate South Sudanese people until they can migrate to South 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.
We have had no reports of the Sudanese Government establishing camps in Sudan to temporarily accommodate South Sudanese.
A recent report following a comprehensive interagency assessment has
recorded 40,000 South Sudanese currently living in temporary settlements
in Khartoum. The majority of these people are waiting to return to South Sudan. The UK is supporting the talks in Addis Ababa and urging both governments to reach an agreement on citizenship rights.
