Southern Sudan to vote on independence
Continue reading the main story Sudan: Set for divorce? One country or two? Bye bye Khartoum Q&A: South Sudan referendum In pictures: Southern Sudan People in southern Sudan are due to start voting in a landmark referendum on independence. The week-long vote is widely expected to result in Africa’s largest country being split in two. Ahead of the referendum, the region’s leader Salva Kiir said there was no alternative to peaceful co-existence between the north and the south. The poll was part of the terms of the 2005 peace agreement which ended the war between the two. Speaking in the grounds of the presidential palace in Juba, Mr Kiir said the referendum was “not the end of the journey but…
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Southern Sudan to vote on independence
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