Hundreds of IDPs Leave Ezo for Tambura
Hundreds of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) living in Tambura County boarded a man tracks on the morning of Monday 6th, March 2023 heading back to their homeland in Tambura County nearly a year and a half, after fleeing inter-communal fighting in the area.
Hundreds of IDPs Leave Ezo for Tambura
By Baraka John
Hundreds of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) living in Tambura County boarded a man tracks on the morning of Monday 6th, March 2023 heading back to their homeland in Tambura County nearly a year and a half, after fleeing inter-communal fighting in the area.
According to one of the IDPs, their relatives who stay outside the Country had contributed money to help them hire a track to carry them back to their homeland.
It’s not clear whether the Ezo county and Tambura County authorities are aware of the return of the IDPs as efforts to reach authorities of the two counties were not successful.
Sources in Tambura said, for months now, the County is experiencing relative peace, as a sign of coexistence between the conflicting communities there is prevailing.
A religious leader in Ezo county, told the Rurugene newsletter team, that the IDPs are returning on daily bases using motorcycles or bicycles to carry with them their belongings and family members.
The IDPs said their return home is on voluntary bases with the aim to begin a new life, these include preparing land for farming as the rainy season is on the corner, and others are returning to rebuild their houses that were burnt down during the one-year violence.
A report released by UN-OCHA states that an estimated 45,000 people fled to Ezo County, with thousands of others moving to Yambio town, Nagero, Namutina, Wau, Nzara, and Moso.
The president of South Sudan in early 2022 formed a high-level committee to investigate the root cause of the Tambura conflict and to seek a solution and end to the violence, but the findings of the committee were not made public.
