More Ethiopians leave Sudan

About eight-hundred Ethiopian refugees have left Khartoum to return home, bringing the number who have gone back since January to about ten-thousand.

Dozens of trucks and buses crossed the border, some of them carrying refugees who have spent up to fifteen years in Sudan.

The United Nations refugee agency has said that the reasons which caused the Ethiopians to become refugees in the first place no longer exist.

It gave them until January this year to undergo a screening process or lose their status as refugees.

It is estimated that some three-thousand Ethiopians still remain in Sudan.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service