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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>Forty people, most of them children, who spent months separated from their families were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Thursday and flown home to be reunited with their families.<\/p>\n

According to an ICRC press statement Thursday, the 29 children, nine women, and two men were handed over to the ICRC in Gul, Ayod County, and then flown on ICRC planes to Malakal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 40 children and adults had been taken between November and December 2022 during armed hostilities in Fashoda County, Upper Nile State,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

Local authorities had asked the ICRC to act as a neutral intermediary, by its humanitarian mandate, and facilitate the transfer.<\/p>\n

ICRC said that their team on Wednesday assessed the health of the released and confirmed that they were fit to travel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team accompanied them during their journey and were prepared to tend to any medical needs along the way,\u201d the statement read. \u201cThe ICRC was not involved in the negotiations that preceded the release.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pierre Dorbes, the head of the ICRC delegation in Juba, said it was fulfilling to help reunite the former abductees with their families.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a great joy for us to be able to help these children, women and men return to their families,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is very fulfilling to contribute to reuniting families that have been separated due to conflict and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ICRC is an impartial, neutral, and independent humanitarian organization with an exclusively humanitarian mandate, which enables it to act as a neutral intermediary. It has conducted similar operations related to conflict and other situations of violence in the past.<\/p>\n

Children are particularly vulnerable in situations of armed conflict. Under international humanitarian law, children affected by hostilities are entitled to special respect and protection and must not be arbitrarily deprived of their liberty.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About South-Sudan<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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