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17 January 2011 – Disclosing findings about Sudan's referendum today, two days after polling closed, international and national observer missions indicated a largely free and fair process. However, the missions' preliminary…
16 January 2011 - The UN panel monitoring the Southern Sudan self-determination referendum expressed today its satisfaction that the process had allowed the people of the region to freely express their will. Welcoming…
16 January 2011 – Counting of ballot papers for Southern Sudan's self-determination referendum began across the country immediately after balloting closed yesterdayevening. African observer missions commended the national…
The man was tall with a pearly white smile, dressed in reasonably clean, blue track pants and an off-white t-shirt. He was awaiting trial for murder, yet nothing about his face told a story of crime. He was in shackles, the…
15 January 2011 – Artists gathered in Khartoum today aiming to launch styrofoam boats and doves on the Nile as an expression of solidarity and artistic freedom. But many also mourned the possibility of Southern Sudan's…
13 January 2011 – One day before voting began in the Southern Sudan referendum, Khamis Unywok packed up his wife, five children and all their belongings to return to his birthplace. The family boarded a truck bound for the…
13 January 2011 -- Food prices in Juba have been rising in recent weeks as some jittery foreign merchants pulled out of the region before the start of voting in the Southern Sudan referendum. The trend began in the first half…
13 January, 2011 – On the fifth day of polling for the Southern Sudan referendum, local tribal leaders in River Nile State assured the UN Secretary-General's monitoring panel that the process was proceeding fairly, but…
12 January 2011 – Stressing that ballots must replace bullets, Antonio Monteiro of the UN Secretary General's Panel on the Referenda in Sudan visited four polling centres today in the Northern Bahr El-Ghazal capital of Aweil…
12 January 2011 - Jubilant Southern Sudanese expatriates who settled in Uganda after fleeing Sudan's second civil war flocked in large numbers to polling centres in the national capital of Kampala this week. Voters assigned…
12 January 2011 – Akot Chan Chol Ater, 96, never imagined he would live to participate in either this month's self-determination referendum in Southern Sudan or the general election of April 2010. "I thank God for all his…
11 January 2011 – By the third day of polling in Southern Sudan's self-determination referendum, voter turnout in Kallagan Payam along the disputed border between the north and south was dwindling. Lack of transportation to…