20110117
xinhua

KHARTOUM, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Secretary-General' s Panel on the Referenda in Sudan on Sunday said the polling process in south Sudan referendum allowed the people of south Sudan to express their will freely.

20110116
reuters

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - South Sudan's polling centres closed their doors on Saturday after a week-long vote on independence from the north that could end a vicious cycle of civil war with the creation of the world's newest state.

20110115
Sudan Tribune

Khartoum — US's President envoy to Sudan Scott Gration said Doha peace process should continue as all the efforts are needed to end the war in Darfur region.

20110115
Sudan Tribune

Khartoum — The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Sudan believes that the referendum process currently underway meets the threshold that would allow it to be recognized, a party official said today.

20110115
UN News

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the end of the polling period for the referendum on the self-determination of Southern Sudan, and congratulated the people for their patience and peaceful determination to cast their ballots, which characterized voting over the past week.

20110115
xinhua

KHARTOUM, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan referendum's polling process entered its seventh day on Saturday and South Sudan Referendum Commission (SSRC) excluded any trend to extend the polling period that started on Jan. 9.

20110111
xinhua

KHARTOUM, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan Referendum Commission (SSRC) on Monday said that the voting rate registered 20 percent in south Sudan's 10 states and 14 percent in north Sudan in the first day of the poll.

20110112
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudan will want to strengthen ties with sub-Saharan Africa, the West and beyond after its expected secession, but will have to tread carefully if it wants to avoid antagonising its old rulers in Khartoum.

20110111
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Shrouded in black cloth, the home of Sudan's first leader Ismail al-Azhari is transformed into a symbol of mourning in Khartoum as the south votes in a plebiscite likely to split Africa's largest country for ever.

20110111
reuters

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Armed men killed 10 southern Sudanese in an ambush, a southern minister said on the third day of a referendum on independence for the south in which voters have defied gloomy predictions and turned out in huge numbers.

20110110
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - At least 36 people have died in clashes between Arab nomads and southerners near Sudan's north- south border, leaders in the contested Abyei region said on Monday, on the second day of a vote on southern independence.

20110110
reuters

MAYO CAMP, Sudan (Reuters) - Fatma Abdallah Deng fears she may become one of the last southern Sudanese living in Khartoum's slums, as her neighbours move south to what they expect to become a new independent homeland.

20110110
africanews

US President Barack Obama has hailed the start of a landmark referendum on independence in Southern Sudan. He said the week-long vote - which is expected to result in Africa's largest country being split in two - represented a "new chapter in history". The poll was agreed as part of the 2005 deal that ended a two-decade civil war.

20110108
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - North and South Sudan could join forces in a European Union-style pact if southerners vote to secede in Sunday's independence referendum, Sudan's president said in an interview on Friday.

20110108
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Six people were killed in clashes between rebel militias and south Sudan's army on Friday and Saturday, the military said a day before a referendum in which the south is expected to vote for independence.

20110108
africanews

Southern Sudanese President Salva Kiir has ruled out a return to war with the North irrespective of the outcome of his region's independence referendum which begins today.

20110108
africanews

Sudan President Omar al-Bashir has said Southern Sudan will face instability if it votes to secede from the north in a forthcoming referendum saying it did not have the ability to create a stable state or provide for its citizens. He said he understood why many southerners wanted independence, but he expressed concern at how the new nation would cope.

20110108
africanews

After years of negotiations, John Garang, the president of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, the largest rebel movement in the south and the government of Sudan signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in January 2005. The power-sharing agreement signed in Naivasha, Kenya, ended the longest-running civil war in Africa. The focus of the whole country for the last few years had been on the first elections in almost 25 years and the referendum was not discussed until very recently.

20110107
xinhuda

The southern Sudan referendum to be held in the country's south, north and eight foreign countries is now fully prepared for the historic day on Jan. 9, a referendum commission official told Xinhua Wednesday.

20110107
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan still has not agreed to a U.N. plan to increase its peacekeeping force there by 20 percent, as the African nation heads into a referendum that could split it in two, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said on Thursday.