Jon Temin, director of the Sudan and South Sudan programs at USIP, examines "a difficult year" for Sudan and South Sudan, and highlights some of USIP's work in the region.
The returnees board two dozen buses bound for their ancestral home - which today is a village called Torit. They are for the most part women and children. Some are jubilant. Others are apprehensive. Some sing as their vehicles depart while others sit in resigned silence afraid for what the future would hold.
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Link TV produced a documentary film and music video called "The Price of Silence"