Sunday, March 11, 2007

UN opens repatriation corridors from Ethiopia to Sudan

Refugees are returning home to South Sudan. To what are they returning? Many have not seen their homeland for more than twenty years. Some were born in refugee camps and knew nothing except life on the run. Many never saw what life in South Sudan is like.

Welcome home, nevertheless. There is much to be done that requires every citizen to participate. There are many who expect a lot at home and get disappointed when they find no water and food waiting for them.

Home could not be what they expected, but home is home. There is nothing like home. As the former SPLM leader used to say, South Sudan is going to be built from zero. Let everyone come home and put a brick.

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