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The Repatriation and Resettlement of the Southern Sudanese

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2019

Louise W. Holborn
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While the world press has focused over the past year on problems surrounding the creation of still another refugee population in Africa — that of Uganda's Asians — far too little attention has been directed to the remarkable though still fragile process of repatriation and resettlement of hundreds of thousands of Southern Sudanese. This population of displaced persons includes both refugees who fled to other countries and large numbers of homeless who hid in the bush during the civil war that wracked the Sudan for seventeen years, from 1955 through the first months of 1972. Responding to the initiatives of President Gaafar al-Nimeiry of the Sudan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (HCR), under an explicit mandate from the Secretary- General of the United Nations, has been raising funds, organizing activities on behalf of the most pressing needs and working closely with all local interests to meet overwhelming problems.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , Winter 1972 , pp. 23 - 26
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1972 

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1 UNHCR Nos. 1-3, July, Sept. and Dec. 1972, and UNHCR Suppl. to No.3, Dec. 1972 (Geneva); UNHCR Bulletin, No. 17 May 1972 (Geneva), pp.18-19; UN GA, Exec. Comm. of the High Commissioner's Programme (XXIII), A/AC.96/lnf. 133, 5 Oct. 1972; ECOSOC (LM), Res. 1655 and (LIII) Res. 1705, Exec. Comm. (XXIII), A/AC.96/473, 4 Sept. 1972, Annexes V and VI; UN GA Res. 2958 (XXVI), 12 Dec. 1972.

2 Beshir, Mohammed Omer, The Southern Sudan, Background to Conflict, Khartoum University Press (Sudan), 1965. Beshir, The Sudan, Cross Roads of Africa (London), 1968.

3 The Democratic Republic of the Sudan, Relief and Resettlement Conference on Southern Region, 21-23 February 1972, Ministry of State for Southern Affairs, Khartoum (Sudan), 1972.

4 Dem. Rep. of the Sudan, Projects for Relief and Reconstruction in the Southern Region, Ministry of State for Southern Affairs, Khartoum (Sudan), 1972.