JUBA, April 25 (Xinhua) - South Sudan on Tuesday confirmed receiving more than 10,000 civilians displaced by the ongoing conflict in neighboring Sudan.

Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Deng Dau Deng said the majority of the returnees are South Sudanese nationals, while others include Sudanese, Kenyans, Ugandans, Eritreans, and Somalis.

In this photo provided by the Spanish Defence Ministry passengers from Sudan disembark from a Spanish Air Force aircraft at Torrejon Air Base in Madrid, Monday April. 24, 2023. (Photo: AP)

"On the situation of South Sudanese, the government is doing everything within its power to receive South Sudanese citizens who are returning to the country. In the last 24 hours, nearly 10,000 arrived in Renk, including nationals of some neighboring countries," Deng said in a statement issued in the South Sudanese capital of Juba on Monday evening.

He disclosed hundreds of other civilians have arrived in Northern and Western Bahr el Ghazal states, respectively. Deng said the government has opened its airspace for countries evacuating their diplomats and nationals.

He said 24 Kenyan nationals who arrived from Sudan through the northern border from Paloch Airport in Upper Nile State were evacuated on Monday to Juba.

This came after Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and his rival Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), reached a three-day ceasefire deal.

Deng revealed that the lull in fighting has allowed diplomatic missions to evacuate staff and nationals, adding that hundreds of Sudanese have also been given time to relocate to nearby regions.

He said South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has engaged the warring Sudanese parties to ensure that the temporary humanitarian ceasefire is held to allow foreign missions to evacuate their diplomatic staff and nationals.