South Sudan is preparing to repatriate some one point five million southerners from the north and Egypt, ahead of a referendum due next January.
The proposals suggest returnees would travel on trains, buses and boats down the River Nile, BBC website reported. Some two million people already returned to the south since the end of a two-decade conflict in 2005.
However, some aid workers questioned the plan’s feasibility. If the proposals are implemented, thousands of people could be arriving each day to a grossly underdeveloped region struggling to cope with its current population
The plan is entitled Come Home to choose and was drawn up by the south’s humanitarian affairs and disaster management ministry. The proposals stipulated that necessary requirements for returnees must include sufficient resources and security to make the movement possible, with an estimated budget of 25 m dollar.