SUDAN: More young southerners returning home - report

Saturday, November 22, 2008
NAIROBI Monday, October 27, 2008 (IRIN) - More than half of the families returning to Southern Sudan are headed by single women while 59 percent of all returnees are aged 5 to 17, a new report said. "Spontaneous return movements show a tendency for women to return without [the] male head of household or males to leave women with the children in the place of return to either return back to the place of displacement or to a secondary place of displacement," the International Organization for...
Source: http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81141