Southern Sudan votes overwhelmingly for independence
Nairobi/Juba, Jan 30 (DPA) Sunday, January 30, 2011 –> Just short of 99 percent of Southern Sudanese have voted to secede from the north and form an independent state, according to preliminary results released Sunday. January’s referendum was enshrined in a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war in Sudan between the mainly Muslim north and Christian and Animist south. The Southern Sudan Referendum Commission said on its website that with all the votes counted, some 98.83 percent of almost four million voters had opted for independence. The turnout far…
Continue reading here:
Southern Sudan votes overwhelmingly for independence
Posted by
on January 30, 2011. Filed under
News.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the
RSS 2.0.
You can leave a response or trackback to this entry