Maisha ya Sudan kuisni

Watu walojitolea na walorudi nyumbani hivi karibuni wanawasiadia maafisa kuwandikisha watu wanaowasili kutoka kaskazini.

Belongings from recent returnees are left outside because there is no room to for them in the small traditional one-room dwellings called "tukus."

UN's Mission in Sudan, known as UNMIS, has about 700 peacekeepers deployed in Abyei town.

A member of Sudan's military, which backed the militias in the Darfur conflict. Habila Canari.

Rare shade from the scorching sun over Habila Canari, near Sudan's border with Chad.

Trucks are being provided to returnees by local authorities in Abyei to transport household items.

Abyei residents, who fled to northern Sudan during the war, are coming back ahead of a January referendum on self-determination for the region.

The vast majority of the returnees are Ngok Dinka, who say they are happy to be back to their traditional homeland of Abyei.

Priests pray near a figurine of the baby Jesus during a Christmas mass at Catholic Cathedral Church in the north of Khartoum, Sudan, 25 Dec 2010. (Reuters Image)

Dec. 29: A returnee from north Sudan waits for World Food Program staff to start distributing food in the northern Bahr el Ghazal state in south Sudan. People from Sudan's oil-producing south are expected to vote to form Africa's newest nation in a refere

Southern Sudanese load their possessions aboard boats as they make their way back to the south from northern Sudan (file photo)

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