IOM in South Sudan - A Year in Photos

After South Sudan declared independence from the North in July 2011, the Sudanese government set a deadline for all southerners wishing to return to the south to do so before April 8th, 2012, or seek to regularize their stay in the north. IOM stepped in to help transport returnees, and provide emergency medical assistance, shelter, water and sanitation, as well as lighting and non-food emergency relief items in transit sites.