Sudan Poll Could Lead To New Nation - Or War

[Turborama]

Source: Sky News

6:51am UK, Wednesday December 08, 2010
Emma Hurd, in Juba, southern Sudan -

The people of south Sudan are preparing to vote in a referendum that could lead to the birth of a new nation in Africa - or plunge the region back into war.

Registration for the poll ends today, and millions of southern Sudanese are poised to vote for independence from the government in Khartoum on January 9, 2011.

"We don't want anything to do with the north of Sudan anymore," 50-year-old Medelini Ontini said, clutching her voting card in one of the dusty registration centres in Juba, the capital of the south.

"They killed too many of our people."

The referendum was part of the terms of the 2005 peace deal that ended the two decade-long civil war between the mainly Christian south of Sudan and the largely Muslim north.

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