S Sudan ‘secures’ vote to secede
South Sudan has won the majority of votes needed in order to become the world’s newest state, with just 60 per cent of results declared from a landmark referendum. Preliminary figures collated by the AFP news agency on Thursday indicated that some areas of Sudan returned 99 per cent landslides for independence. According to AFP, at least 2,224,857 votes for a separation of the mainly Christian, African south from the mainly Muslim, Arab north had been counted from the previous night. A simple majority of 1.89 million votes was needed from a total of 3,932,588 registered voters. In Lakes state, which carried a rebel stronghold during a devastating 1983-2005 civil war with the north, 99.9 per…
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