According to a statement by Sanaa Abdalla Omer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 770,000 persons have crossed the northern border of South Sudan in the last 21 months.
South Sudanese citizens are returning across the border because they had previously sought refuge from the civil war in their country, the statement underscored.
The document stressed that in Renk County alone, bordering north South Sudan, two transit centers originally built to accommodate fewer than 5,000 people, are now home to more than 16,000 refugees.
In this situation, the United Nations urged a rise in aid to the local communities in South Sudan hosting these displaced people and warned of the scarcity of resources to deal with the problem.
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