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By Philip Thon Aleu
Posted to the web on November 7, 2009 |
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November 6, 2009 (BOR) – United Nations Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Southern Sudan, in a press release Friday, commends Jonglei authorities for recovering abducted children and calls more for efforts to halt kidnapping “wherever in Southern Sudan.”
Children rescued from Murle abductors pose for a photo with UN agencies and state officials in Bor on Thursday (Photo by Peter Kayier)
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The UN officer, Lise Grande, welcomes the rescue of 28 children by Southern Sudan Police Service – the first ever child’s rights protection successful operation in Jonglei state. Initiated by Akot Maze Adikir, Pibor County Commissioner, in collaboration with local chiefs and security agencies, the accumulative release of children aged between 2 and 14, which started in September, 2009 restores hope that the practice has a method to solve. 13 children were recovered in September and 15 in October, 2009.
17 children, 9 Ethiopians from the Gambella Region and 8 Southern Sudanese from Eastern and Central Equatoria states, were flown to Juba Thursday October 29, 2009 aboard an UNMIS flight and handed over to Government of Southern Sudan representatives and Ethiopian Consular General.
UNICEF is offering temporarily accommodation at Totto Chana Center in Juba and working on registration and relevant documentation to facilitate a family-tracing and consequent reunification with parents, the UN statement released from Juba added.
Ms. Grande says the children currently in Juba will be united with their families as soon as possible and she hopes that other children still abduction “be released and that the practice of child abduction is brought to a stop wherever…in Southern Sudan.”
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