South Sudanese living in the Sudan should collaborate with the repatriation officials by making some preparations and not just waiting for help.
The national minister for humanitarian affairs has express concern over the need to repatriate South Sudanese living in Egypt and Sudan.Josph Lual Acuil that the ministry together with the Relief and Reintegration Commission are making efforts to speed up repatriation but they need the cooperation of Southerners.
He urged people wanting to be repatriated to collaborate by selling some of their assets and trying to find their way home.
Mr Lual added that it was difficult to hire enough barges, buses or trains to bring Southerners home.
The minister said the Government is discussing ways to bring to South Sudan some 2,000 Southerners detained in the Sudan.
He added that the ministry of Gender and Child Welfare has registered South Sudanese street children in Khartoum and is making plans to fly them home.
Some NGOs say that there are at least 700,000 Southerners living in the Sudan.
The UN said the real number should be lower.