News from Sudan/Новости из Судана
South Sudan Referendum Was Fair, African Union Says
January 18, 2011, 10:30 AM EST
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By Antony Sguazzin and Maram Mazen
(Updates with comment from African Union in second paragraph.)
Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Southern Sudan’s referendum last week on independence from the north was “free, fair and credible,” the African Union said.
The vote will give a “true reflection of the democratically expressed will of the people of Southern Sudan,” the Union said in an e-mailed statement today.
The statement echoes comments yesterday by the Atlanta- based Carter Center and the European Union observer mission, which said the week-long vote that ended Jan. 15 was “credible and well organized” and that voter turnout was high, surpassing the 60 percent needed to validate the vote.
The results will be announced next month and independence, if approved, declared on July 9. A vote for independence will give the south control of almost 80 percent of Sudan’s current oil production of 490,000 barrels a day, pumped mainly by China National Petroleum Corp., Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd. and India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp. Sudan’s output is the third- biggest in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Carter Center “anticipates that the international community will recognize the outcome as soon as the final results are announced,” which are “virtually certain” to be for secession, the center said in a statement yesterday.
The referendum was the center-piece of a 2005 peace accord that ended a civil war that lasted almost 50 years, except for a cease-fire from 1972 to 1983, between the Muslim north and the south, where Christianity and traditional religions dominate. About 2 million people died in the second phase of the conflict.
--Editors: Philip Sanders, Ben Holland
19.01.2011
"Южный Судан проголосовал за независимость"
January 18, 2011, 10:30 AM EST
"South Sudanese in Kenya Overwhelmingly Vote for Secession "
"Kenya’s Odinga Renews Push to End Ivory Coast Crisis"
"Эudanese Vote as Oil-Rich South Eyes Independence"
"South Sudan Referendum Ends; North Expects SecessionЭ"
"Kenyan Red Cross Seeks $17.7 Million to Fight Drought "
By Antony Sguazzin and Maram Mazen
(Updates with comment from African Union in second paragraph.)
Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Southern Sudan’s referendum last week on independence from the north was “free, fair and credible,” the African Union said.
The vote will give a “true reflection of the democratically expressed will of the people of Southern Sudan,” the Union said in an e-mailed statement today.
The statement echoes comments yesterday by the Atlanta- based Carter Center and the European Union observer mission, which said the week-long vote that ended Jan. 15 was “credible and well organized” and that voter turnout was high, surpassing the 60 percent needed to validate the vote.
The results will be announced next month and independence, if approved, declared on July 9. A vote for independence will give the south control of almost 80 percent of Sudan’s current oil production of 490,000 barrels a day, pumped mainly by China National Petroleum Corp., Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd. and India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp. Sudan’s output is the third- biggest in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Carter Center “anticipates that the international community will recognize the outcome as soon as the final results are announced,” which are “virtually certain” to be for secession, the center said in a statement yesterday.
The referendum was the center-piece of a 2005 peace accord that ended a civil war that lasted almost 50 years, except for a cease-fire from 1972 to 1983, between the Muslim north and the south, where Christianity and traditional religions dominate. About 2 million people died in the second phase of the conflict.
--Editors: Philip Sanders, Ben Holland
19.01.2011
"Южный Судан проголосовал за независимость"