In an important milestone, the UN refugee agency on Thursday (January 12) signed the first of seven expected tripartite agreements that will clear the way for up to 70,000 refugees to return to South Sudan in the first half of this year. The agreement was signed in the Kenyan capital between the governments of Sudan, Kenya and UNHCR – exactly one year and three days after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended 21 years of north-south civil war in Sudan was also signed in Nairobi.