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SUDAN / KOSTI RETURNEES
STORY: SUDAN / KOSTI RETURNEES
TRT: 1:34
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20, 21, 22 DECEMBER 2010, KOSTI, KHARTOUM, SUDAN
20 DECEMBER 2010, KOSTI, SUDAN
1. Various shots, returnees
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aliya, Woman Returning to Bor:
"I have come because of the war staying more than 20 years in the north in Ed Damazin and now we are going back to the our land.”
8. Wide shot, barge ready to move
9. Mid shot, Sudan flag
21 DECEMBER 2010, KOSTI, SUDAN
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali Ibrahim, Director of Transportation, Nile Company for River Transportation:
"The remaining voluntary returns at the Port now are about 2000 people. Two weeks ago, the total number reached more than 6,000. Nearly 4,000 have left and this coming Thursday the remaining 2,000 people will move."
11. Med shot, tables and chairs
12. Med shot, chairs
22 DECEMBER 2010, KHARTOUM, SUDAN
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Gatwech, Head of the Taskforce and Team Leader of the Southern Sudan Rehabilitation and Relief Commission:
''We are targeting 150,000 from November 2010 until 2011 we wish to see 150,000 IDPS in south Sudan by the end of third phase.”
21 DECEMBER 2010, KOSTI, SUDAN
14. Med shot, man on the barge
15. Med shot stationary barge
16. Med shot, the barge moving
20 DECEMBER 2010, KOSTI, SUDAN
17. Various shots, returnees
Thousands of internally displaced Southern Sudanese have been camping close to the Port of Kosti, about a four-hour drive from Khartoum, awaiting their return to various regions of Southern Sudan.
With barely three weeks ahead of the Southern Sudan January 2011 which is expected to start on the 9th, a majority of the returnees who have been camping in at the Kosti way-station for days awaiting their return along the river Nile by barge - may still be travelling days into the referendum period. A trip on the barge to distant areas like Juba could take close to a month.
Kosti Port located in White Nile State is a major North-South gateway for travellers to and from the cities of South Sudan by road or river.
Aliya, and elderly woman and a mother of six has been living in Ed Damazine for about 20 years, and is now headed to Bor.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aliya, Elderly Woman Returning to Bor:
"I have come because of the war staying more than 20 years in the north in Ed Damazin and now we are going back to the our land.”
Thousands of the returnees arriving in Kosti are part of the Accelerated Return and Early Reintegration Initiative – ARERI - the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) organized movements. Through this voluntary repatriation to South Sudan, large numbers of people have left various States in Northern Sudan.
Ali Ibrahim Ali, Director of Transportation in the Nile Company for River Transportation in Kosti confirmed the movement of voluntary returns.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali Ibrahim, Director of Transportation, Nile Company for River Transportation:
"The remaining voluntary returns at the Port now are about 2000 people. Two weeks ago, the total number reached more than 6,000. Nearly 4,000 have left and this coming Thursday the remaining 2,000 people will move."
Speaking in Khartoum, Peter Gatwech Peter the Head of the Taskforce and Team Leader of the government of the Southern Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (SSRRC) said they were targeting 150,000 Internally Displaced People to move to the South.
SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Gatwech, Head of the Taskforce and Team Leader of the Southern Sudan Rehabilitation and Relief Commission:
''We are targeting 150,000 from November 2010 until 2011 we wish to see 150,000 IDPS in south Sudan by the end of third phase.”
The SSRRC has to date assisted in the movement of 49, 963 returnees. Another 39,000 are waiting to move while another 60,000 will be moved by March.
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