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Old June 7th, 2012 #1
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Default International Organization for Migration gives S. Sudanese a free $5.5m ride home

IOM completes airlift of nearly 12,000 stranded S. Sudanese

http://www.sudantribune.com/IOM-comp...early-12,42846

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The International Organization for Migration on Wednesday said it has completed the process of airlifting nearly 12,000 South Sudanese from Khartoum to Juba, the South Sudan capital.

The 24-day process, it said in a statement, reportedly involved 79 flights with the support of both the government of Sudan and its South Sudan counterpart.

Those airlifted, had prior to IOM’s intervention, been stranded and spent months at Kosti way station, which is located about 300km south of Sudan’s capital waiting for transport back to South Sudan. While in Kosti, the White Nile state Governor reportedly ordered them to vacate the town by 5 May, but IOM requested for an extension of the deadline to enable the airlift take place.

The operation, which reportedly involved moving an average of 550 people per day, cost an estimated $5.5m. It was funded by the Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF), the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) and the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF).

"The success of this one-off operation, despite the challenges of extreme heat, dust storms and technical challenges posed by excess baggage was due to excellent cooperation between IOM staff, (Sudanese) government and aid agency partners, and service providers every step of the way," said Jill Helke, IOM’s Sudan chief of mission in a statement extended to Sudan Tribune.

Sudan Civil Aviation general director Mohamed Abdel Aziz in statements he made Wednesday in Khartoum, disclosed that another operation is under preparation to transport thousands of South Sudanese to Juba.

South Sudanese since before the referendum on the independence in January 2011 , started their return to the South through the Nile river. But Sudan closed Kosti river port and accused Juba of confiscating 34 barges using it to transport soldiers and military equipment.

In Kosti, prior to the airlifting process, IOM would register and medically screen passengers in before transporting them by bus to Khartoum. However, in order to allow two flight rotations a day, passengers for the first flight of each day reportedly spent the night in Khartoum’s national camping center.

"On arrival in Juba, passengers were met by IOM staff and moved to a transit site established and managed by IOM and UNHCR [United Nations High Commission for Refugees], in coordination with South Sudan’s Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management and the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission," further says the statement.

At least 3,500 South Sudanese, according to IOM, are currently being settled in the transit site, which it says had the capacity to accommodate up to 7,000 people.

In addition to registering new arrivals and sharing information on the most vulnerable with humanitarian partners, IOM is reportedly providing shelter, water and sanitation, lighting and non-food emergency relief items in the transit site.

The organization is also organizing onward transportation for returning South Sudanese arriving in Juba. To date, it says, three road convoys have been organized in Eastern and Western Equatoria states earmarked to help nearly 1,600 people reach their final destinations.

Meanwhile, IOM staff responsible for registration, drawing up flight manifests and pre-travel medical screening will reportedly leave Kosti way station shortly, as the site is now being dismantled by White Nile state officials.

South Sudan gained independence in July last year after its population overwhelmingly voted for separation in the self-determination referendum held in January 2011. Between 500,000-700,000 southerners were still leaving in Khartoum after the south seceded, but an April 08, 2012 deadline given by the Sudanese government forced most them to return to South Sudan.
Seems every moved rock has these "Orgs." crawling under it these days, salting off the tax payers money.
 
Old June 7th, 2012 #2
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IOM completes airlift of nearly 12,000 stranded S. Sudanese

http://www.sudantribune.com/IOM-comp...early-12,42846



Seems every moved rock has these "Orgs." crawling under it these days, salting off the tax payers money.
Over here in the U.S people are dumping Somali refugees and giving them free housing..
 
Old June 7th, 2012 #3
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Over here in the U.S people are dumping Somali refugees and giving them free housing..
Yes, here in England too, Gloriana jacinto. The town of Milton Keynes has a reported 10,000 of them in a short space of two years. (Not sure of the exact figure, I will check it later.)
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Here was some info, rather out of date now though; they could have spawned by the millions in the past year.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...n-friends.html 28 May 2011
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Members of the 10,000-strong Somali community in Milton Keynes gathered at the murder scene to pay their respects. Women in colourful head scarves were wailing in grief.

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They've be-shitted my city with a septic tank full of Smellies too.
One day they're driving goat-carts through the streets of Mogadishu and the next day late model SUVs in my hometown.
How da fuck does that work?
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Nightmare scenario looms in South Sudan, aid groups warn

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/06/wo...udan-refugees/

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In a few weeks, South Sudan will turn a year old. It ought to have been a joyous occasion.

Instead, the world's newest nation is coping with a massive humanitarian crisis wrought by fighting between the armed forces of its nemesis to the north and an affiliate rebel movement.

The fighting is hardly new. For decades before South Sudan's independence in July, civil war raged over territory, oil and religion. Now, aid groups warn that another nightmare looms as millions of people are on the move, desperate to flee fighting and find a safer place to live.

The United Nations refugee agency said this week that the situation had sharply deteriorated in South Sudan's Upper Nile state, flooded with refugees crossing the border from Sudan.

About 150,000 refugees from Sudan are currently in South Sudan. That presents an enormous logistical challenge for aid agencies.

"This is a dramatic change in an already difficult humanitarian situation," said Antonio Guterres, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees.

"Not only are refugee numbers suddenly much higher, but the condition that many of these people are in is shockingly bad," he said. "Some have been eating tree leaves to survive along the way."

In a statement issued Wednesday, the United States expressed its concerns over the dire situation in South Sudan. Deputy State Department spokesman Mark Toner urged international partners to join the efforts "to relieve suffering and assist those affected by the ongoing violence."

The United States government said it "has stepped up to help prevent further suffering" by providing more than $34 million to support the emergency response to new Sudanese refugees in the region The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has appealed for $145 million to help resolve and prevent a humanitarian crisis in the region.

Enough Project, which works to stop genocide and crimes against humanity and has been monitoring the situation along the Sudanese border, blamed Khartoum for targeting civilians.

"The refugees are pouring into South Sudan because the government of neighboring Sudan is using starvation as a weapon in its South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions," said John Prendergast, co-founder of Enough Project.

In temporary refugee camps, people are living in wretched conditions, say international charities working in the area,

Jean-Marc Jacobs, head of the Medecins Sans Frontieres mission in South Sudan, described the transit camp of Rim as a remote and inhospitable place where people are seeking shelter under the shade of trees.

"People have walked for several days with no food and no water," he said.

The agency has been running a substantial emergency medical operation for the refugees in Upper Nile State.

This week, Medecins Sans Frontieres called on the United Nations to identify a suitable place for more than 30,000 refugees who have crossed the border from Sudan's Blue Nile State into South Sudan's Upper Nile State over the past two weeks.

Many are hungry and face other dire problems like not having access to clean water and proper sanitation.

But it's not just refugees who are suffering.

"The ones who are strong enough to make the long trek to the border do so; the ones left behind face a bleak future," Prendergast said.

Another monitoring group, Amnesty International, visited eight refugee camps between March and April and found people in some instances waiting 10 hours to receive a single container of water or three weeks for food rations.

Amnesty International also documented human rights abuses.

People "faced risks such as forced recruitment into armed groups and sexual violence, in addition to food and water shortages," the group said. Women and girls spoke of their fear of rape and sexual violence.

In refugee camps in Upper Nile State, Amnesty received reports of "boys and young men being forcefully recruited into the armed opposition group, the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement-North."

"We can run away from bombs but not from hunger," one refugee told Amnesty International.

Amnesty urged the United Nations to accelerate efforts to feed people and to make sure protective measures are in place for the vulnerable.

Despite the bleak reality in South Sudan, many of its people are eager to return home.

This week, the International Organization for Migration relocated more than 6,000 South Sudanese from Khartoum to Juba. The operation between the two capitals took more than 11 days and about 40 flights.

UN vehicles lined up on the tarmac in Brindisi, Italy, before a flight to Sudan
 
Old June 8th, 2012 #6
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The operation, which reportedly involved moving an average of 550 people per day, cost an estimated $5.5m. It was funded by the Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF), the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) and the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF).
I suspect YT is funding this shit, whether he knows it or not.
 
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