Photo: Sophia Jones-Mwangi/IRC
AWEIL, South Sudan
A great many of those returning to the new nation of South Sudan have managed to reclaim their ancestral lands or are being supported by relatives. But others, such as Kuc Garang, a young man waiting for his family at the Aweil Railway Station transit camp, are living in limbo.
More than two million Sudanese have returned to their homes in the south since the 2005 peace agreement ended 50 years of brutal civil war in their country. In January 2011, the people of southern Sudan voted overwhelmingly to secede and create their own nation.
A great many of those returning to South Sudan have managed to reclaim their ancestral lands or are being supported by relatives. But others, such as Kuc Garang, a young man I met at the Aweil Railway Station transit camp, are living in limbo.