Bestowing a warm welcome to visitors at Bor way station, store manager Achiek David Arou said he had given food to 271 returnees on the first barge from Juba and 350 on the second.

He said returnees, who had come from Lologo Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Juba, stayed at the station for 72 hours before traveling to their various payams (districts). "On arrival, IDPs receive food for 15 days to help them with their journeys, and then they receive … food for three months and then another three months...," Mr. Arou said.

Food distributed at the way station, which is run by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, includes wheat, vegetables such as beans and peas, salt and oil. Some returnees had complained that they needed grains, flour and sugar as well, said Mr. Arou. CSB corn soya blend

He noted, however, that all returnees were pleased with the hospitality showered on them by IDPs who had already returned and settled down in Bor.