Tawer Receives Memo of Sudanese Returnees and Deportees From South Sudan

Khartoum (SUNA) – Member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Prof. Siddiq Tawer, has received a memorandum from the Organization of the Sudanese Returnees and Deportees from South Sudan State, whose number is around three million people.

The memo included issues of identity, civil service jobs, problems of farmers and merchants, the returnee housing and the students who lost their schools.

This came at the regular news forum of Sudan News Agency (SUNA) on Saturday 29th August.

The organization’s chairman, Madani Mahdi Madani, said that the Sovereignty Council has assigned Dr. Gasim Haj Al-Toam and Ali Ibrahim to follow up on the issues of returnees who returned to the north before the year 2005, and the deportees who were returned after the year 2005 from South Sudan State.

He referred to the neglection shown by the ousted regime to their issues, protests and suffering.

Meanwhile, Prof. Tawer has described the issue of the three million returnees and deportees from South Sudan State as a humanitarian tragedy by all standards, affirming the official and moral commitment of the government to support them and to enhance all their conditions.