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BENTIU, Sudan — Many southern Sudanese who have returned home to vote in a January independence referendum are stranded and hungry in overcrowded camps, residents said Saturday.
About 1.5 million residents fled oil-rich southern Sudan during the 20-year civil war, and the government is eager to bring as many of them home as possible to vote in the Jan. 9 poll. That vote could see the creation of a new country and give the south independence from the north.
Some southerners arrived from the northern Sudanese capital on convoys of buses from the government of southern Sudan as part of their $25 million “come home to choose” program. But others trickled home individually and are not entitled to any help.
