Sudan struggles as millions head south

Nobody knows how many will come: the highest estimate is six million, writes BBC Correspondent David Loyn in Malakal, South Sudan on the largest movement of people in recent history:

Riek Machar, a warlord turned politician who is now building the new government of the south, says that when the dry season starts in November, people will come as if in a tidal wave.

African exodus

A huge, so far unreported, migration of displaced people is taking place at the end of the continent's longest-running civil war, writes Guradian UK Correspondent Jonathan Steele in Malakal, South Sudan, Sep 30 2005.

Chaos and hope as hundreds of thousands of Sudanese return to South Sudan.



Photo: Returning Sudanese walk through Akuem village in southern Sudan. (David Mwangi/Reuters/Guardian)

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