{"id":43866,"date":"2020-01-30T19:45:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T17:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/burkina-faso\/south-sudan-icrc-facilitates-the-release-of-23-persons-including-11-children\/"},"modified":"2020-01-30T19:45:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T17:45:05","slug":"south-sudan-icrc-facilitates-the-release-of-23-persons-including-11-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/burkina-faso\/south-sudan-icrc-facilitates-the-release-of-23-persons-including-11-children\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan: ICRC facilitates the release of 23 persons including 11 children"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has facilitated the release and transport to Juba of 23 persons \u2013 including 11\u00a0children<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 previously held in Central Equatoria, in relation to the conflict in\u00a0South Sudan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

On 29 December 2019, the ICRC received a request from the National Salvation Front (NAS) \u2013 an armed group active in the Equatorias \u2013 to facilitate the release of 23 persons. “The operation took place on 31 December 2019 in coordination with all relevant authorities, allowing families to be reunited with their loved ones at a time of celebration. Before bringing them to Juba, the ICRC \u2013 acting as neutral intermediary – ensured that the released persons were handed over voluntarily and that their health condition allowed them to travel safely,” said James Reynolds, the ICRC head of delegation in South Sudan.<\/p>\n

The ICRC facilitated medical attention as well as accommodation upon arrival in Juba. The organization also offered transport arrangements by land and air for the released persons.<\/p>\n

Among the persons handed over to the ICRC figures the four-year-old child of a late IOM-volunteer who died during fighting end of October. The child will be reunited with his father.<\/p>\n

This is the fourth time the ICRC facilitates a release of persons held in captivity since the signing of the\u00a0peace agreement<\/a>\u00a0in September 2018.<\/p>\n

The ICRC is mentioned as a neutral facilitator for the\u00a0release of detainees<\/a>\u00a0in the Agreement on Cessation of Hostilities, Protection of Civilians, and Humanitarian Access that was signed between the parties to the conflict in December 2017 as well as a supervisor for the\u00a0release of detainees<\/a>\u00a0in chapter II of the R-ARCSS.<\/p>\n

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).<\/i>
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