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Southern Sudan enters final day of referendum on independence
Saturday January 15, 2011 05:02:23 PM,
DPA
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Nairobi/Juba: Voters in
southern Sudan headed to the polls Saturday on the final day of a
week of voting in a landmark referendum on independence for the
south.
Surveys at this point -- after the turnout had already passed the
60-percent threshold needed to make the vote valid -- indicated a
clear decision in favour of independence for the region.
Election observers over the past few days had praised the
generally peaceful voting, which got underway Jan 9, although
violence between two rival tribes in the restive Abyei region had
left around 100 people dead.
The referendum is the centrepiece of a 2005 peace deal that ended
decades of civil war between the mainly Muslim north and the
Christian and Animist south -- a conflict that claimed the lives
of more than two million southerners and displaced four million
more in Africa's largest nation.
The UN said preliminary results from the vote were expected in
early February, but that a final result would be declared either
Feb 7 or 14 under the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission's
timeline.
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