Eve Of South Sudan Independence Vote
Saturday, 8 January 2011, 1:38 pm Press Release: United Nations On Eve Of South Sudan Independence Vote, UN Ramps Up Its Multiple Roles New York, Jan 7 2011 1:10PM As Southern Sudan gears up for a week-long independence referendum starting on Sunday that could split Africa’s largest country in two, the United Nations is ramping up its multiple roles, from monitoring the vote to providing aid to returning southerners to preparing options for a worst-case scenario, however unlikely, of renewed warfare. In his latest report to the Security Council on the nearly 10,000-strong UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), set up in 2005 to support a peace agreement that ended 20 years of war between North…
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