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"Hundreds of Thousands Return to South Sudan in past Nine Months UN." //Welcome to the United Nations: It's Your World//. UN News Service, 15 Aug. 2011. Web. 04 Oct. 2011. .


 * __15 FACTS__ **
 * 1) 15 August 2011 – Nearly 330,000 have returned to South Sudan since the end of October last year from neighbouring Sudan
 * 2) the United Nations humanitarian agency reported today, saying that most of the returnees were arriving by bus, train or river barge.
 * 3) South Sudan became independent from Sudan on 9 July, becoming Africa’s newest State.
 * 4) The secession followed a referendum in January when the overwhelming majority of southerners elected to become independent
 * 5) six years after a landmark peace agreement ended decades of war between the north and the south.
 * 6) Since the end of July, some 7,200 returnees have received 15-day food rations, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
 * 7) Shortages of non-food items, such as mosquito nets, have eased with the arrival of additional supplies, it added.
 * 8) Aid agencies are rehabilitating latrines
 * 9) supporting vaccination for some 3,000 new returnees who have arrives at the Juba river port on transit to Eastern and Western Equatoria states.
 * 10) Food, water and health services are also being supplied in Juba before those returning continue their journey to their areas of origin.
 * 11) Some 2,800 people have arrived in Pariang county, Unity State
 * 12) aid agencies airdropped 34 tons of food, enough to feed 2,500 people for on month, between 7 and 11 August.
 * 13) Reports of interference with relief efforts continue to be received in Warrab state
 * 14) Solders have forced UN and non-governmental organization (NGO) vehicles to stop
 * 15) often at gunpoint, and give lifts to armed and uniformed men on at least five occasions over the past week.