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12 January 2011 – Representing the majority of UN electoral and referendum field staff, 214 UN Volunteers (UNVs) from 70 countries are deployed throughout Sudan to directly support the Southern Sudan referendum. Working with…
11 January 2011 - As the Southern Sudan self-determination referendum entered its third day, a top polling official said initial results from the region could be announced by the end of the month. Speaking at a press…
11 January 2011 - Tabita Nambugo had been a patient in the maternity wing at the Maridi Hospital for 18 days when the Southern Sudanese referendum vote began on 9 January. She arrived there following a 21 December Lords…
10 January 2011 – Mateo Lodu Tongun could barely contain his excitement as he waited to vote in the Southern Sudanese referendum at Peiti Polling Centre, some 20 kilometres from the regional capital of Juba. Born in the early…
10 January 2011 – Jeremiah Gony Shuei was a young man of 23 when he joined the Anyanya One rebels in 1963 who were fighting to overthrow the regime of Gen. Ibrahim Abboud. He can still recall the 15-day-long trek that he and…
10 January 2011 – On the second day of polling in the Southern Sudan self-determination referendum, the national commission organizing it announced that one fifth of voters registered in Southern Sudan had voted yesterday…
10 January 2011 - Turnout on the second day of voting for Southern Sudan's self-determination referendum in polling centres of the south appeared considerably reduced compared to the flood of voters witnessed on the previous…
9 January 2011 – The historic Southern Sudan self-determination referendum was proceeding smoothly so far, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) in Sudan Haile Menkerios said today in the Eastern Equatoria…
9 January 2011 - With only one leg to carry him, 71-year-old former soldier William Anei Yom Akot made a three-mile trek to reach a referendum polling centre today in Aweil, Northern Bahr El-Ghazal State. Defying the town's…
9 January 2011 – Legions of voters converged on polling centres across Southern Sudan today to cast their ballots in the region's long-awaited referendum on self-determination. Over 3.9 million eligible adults registered to…
9 January 2011 – As the weather was slowly warming up this windy morning in Sudan's capital of Khartoum, nine men were sitting on a bench in front of a polling centre, waiting to cast their votes in the country's long-awaited…
8 January 2011 - A day before Southern Sudan's self-determination referendum is set to kick off, residents of Fashoda County in Upper Nile State can barely contain their excitement. As observed by an UNMIS Malakal military…