Sudan/DRC: Congolese refugees in South Sudan prepare to go against the flow

The UN refugee agency has finished registering a group of 851 refugees from the DRC who have been in South Sudan for the past 40 years – but now want to go home. The group left the country between 1965 and 1968, in order to escape post-independence chaos and fighting, as well as the coup that brought Mobutu Sese Seko to power. Even though a significant proportion of the group were born in South Sudan and are well integrated into Sudanese society, the majority told UNHCR that they have a strong desire to return to the land of their ancestors.