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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Mohamed Nureldin Abdalla

South Sudanese return to Sudan seeking relief, but find more hardship

South Sudanese Toka Ayman Agok, who returned to Khartoum after the 2011 secession, looks on during an interview with Reuters, at a makeshift shelter in an abandoned plot of land, in Bahri, Sudan, August 7, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

Living in flimsy shelters made of wood and plastic tarp or half-finished concrete buildings, South Sudanese who have returned to Sudan are finding life tougher as their former country's economy tumbles.

"It's very difficult. Life is worse than before. We can't figure out what to do, neither here nor in the South," said Toka Ayman Agok, a mother of nine children.

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