The commissioner of Twic East County in Jonglei State has encouraged the IDPs in Awerial County to voluntarily return home as dike construction nears completion.
Awerial is home to more than 64,000 IDPs from Twic East County.
Officials claim that while the rest had been in the area since the conflict erupted in December 2013, flash floods in 2020 displaced the majority of them.
In order to prevent further flooding, the government embarked on a 97-kilomter dyke construction.
Commissioner Jacob Chol Tor says the work is 15 percent incomplete.
"We'll finish it on the 15th of next month. I just toured the dike with my car from Kongor area to Pakeer, and there was no water,” Chol told Mingkaman FM on Wednesday.
“This should be a message to the communities of Twic East that the flood is no more, and it is one of the important achievements this year.”
The displaced, who are mainly women and children, depend on humanitarian food assistance.
The UN World Food Program, through Plan International, terminated the General Food Distribution (GFD) in Lakes State in August.
James Awan Parpiny, GFD supervisor at Plan International in Mingkaman, attributed the termination to a lack of funding from the main agency, WFP.
The GFD ended, leaving most families worried about hunger.