Nearly 4 million Sudanese to vote on independence

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) – Almost 4 million southern Sudanese, or roughly half the south’s population, have registered to take part in an independence referendum next week that is likely to split Africa’s largest country in two, officials said on Monday. The U.S. State Department said it was optimistic ahead of the vote, which is due to begin in six days and marks the climax of a 2005 peace deal that ended a civil war in Sudan that killed at…

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Nearly 4 million Sudanese to vote on independence

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