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PETERSON GITHAIGA | NATION Members of the United Southern Sudan Youth for Referendum during a peaceful demonstration at Nairobi’s Uhuru Park early this month. South Sudan has readied plans for the return of more than 1.5 million southerners living in the north and Egypt for a referendum

PETERSON GITHAIGA | NATION Members of the United Southern Sudan Youth for Referendum during a peaceful demonstration at Nairobi’s Uhuru Park early this month. South Sudan has readied plans for the return of more than 1.5 million southerners living in the north and Egypt for a referendum 

By AFP
Posted  Tuesday, August 24  2010 at  10:57

About half the estimated four million people displaced during the war have so far returned to the south since the peace accord of five years ago.

But the often high expectations of the returnees have taken a battering because of the lack of services in war-ravaged and grossly underdeveloped southern Sudan.

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