Southern Sudan votes on independence
JUBA: Millions of jubilant south Sudanese started voting on Sunday in an independence referendum expected to see their war-ravaged region emerge as a new nation. People queued for hours in the burning sun outside polling stations in the southern capital Juba, where banners described the week-long ballot as a “Last March to Freedom” after decades of civil war and perceived repression by north Sudan. “This is the moment the people of southern Sudan have been waiting for,” Southern president Salva Kiir said after casting his…
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