Over 1,000 returnees are currently staying at the Malakal way station which has a capacity 700 people due to uncoordinated movement of returnees from Sudan to South Sudan.
UNOCHA Weekly Humanitarian Bulletin said aid agencies were working to ease the congestion, by organizing forward transportation by air for vulnerable returnees and road for those heading to Bahr el Ghazal, Unity State and Upper Nile.The report added that the conditions in the overcrowded way station were worrying, and that one child died of diarrhoea.
UNOCHA said that the situation was a reminder of the importance of strong coordination of organized returnee transports to avoid hold-up of movement to final destination.