Transitional National Assembly on Tuesday passed a law that will protect and assist the internally displaced persons or IDPs in the country.
Acting Speaker Timothy Tut Chol approved the African Union Convention to be used for assistance and protection of IDPs.
Tut explains that the law took over two years to be enacted was because some members thought it might interfere with the system of the government.
He says a country is required to look after its citizens in times of disaster or conflict to ensure that they are protected.
The Kampala Convention (formally, the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa) was adopted in October 2009.
As of 2016 it has been signed by forty and ratified by twenty-five of the fifty-four member states of the African Union.
South Sudan became the twenty-sixth country of the African Union to ratify The Convention.