Undated photo of Anthony Makuach sitting on a tire. (Photo: Courtesy).

Anthony Makuach, a veteran Red Army member who was taken for dead, after going missing in 1995, has been found in Kenya and is expected to arrive in the country on Monday.

“Our lost friend, brother, and colleague at the same time who is a Red Army member, a veteran known as Anthony Makuoch who was with us is alive, he has been found,” Marial Awuok, a member of his reception committee.

Makuach was one of the unaccompanied minors who went to Pinyudo Ethiopia, in the midst of the second Sudanese Civil War in 1980s.

He trained as a child soldier, but was reportedly discharged from the army, along with hundreds of other fellows, and taken to the infamous Kakuma Refugees Camp in Kenya.

In the camp, he became a popular footballer in 1990s, and signed for a Kenyan football team after an impressive game between Kakuma and Lodwar.

He then vanished in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa, leaving his family and friends with no option – but to pronounce him dead.

But, Makuach who is said to have forgotten most of his friends and his native Dinka language after 27 years away, will return home from Kenya – thanks to arrangements by his former comrades who discovered his whereabouts.

“As the Juba team, we want to make this announcement to the public, to the friend, and to the Red Army that we are going to gather at Nyakuron cultural center on Monday at 12 noon to dispatch from there to Juba International Airport to go and receive our colleague Anthony Makuoch who will be arriving at 2:30 from Nairobi,” said Red Army member Awuok.