Sudan: IOM Returns Over 2,000 Southerners, Lauds Citizenship Deal

20 March 2012

Juba — The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has lauded the recently concluded framework agreement between Sudan and South Sudan, which defines movement, residence, economic activity and properties of citizens living in either country.

Both countries, in principle, agreed to allow citizens in either country to live, work and own property on either side of the new international border, and travel between the two nations without any pre-conditions attached to their activities.

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