Publish date. 09-01-2011   Number of images. 2 Category. Political News

Hundreds of thousands wait to vote in Sudan independence referendum

In Juba, the capital of southern Sudan, its president, Salva Kiir, voted as soon as polls opened at 8am, describing the referendum as "the historic moment ...

Southern Sudanese leader Salva Kiir said the vote for independence was a historic moment. Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images Hundreds of thousands of people from across sout

Full View  Southern Sudanese leader Salva Kiir said the vote for independence was a historic moment. Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images Hundreds of thousands of people from across southern Sudan began queueing from before dawn today to cast their ballots at the start of the week-long independence referendum. The poll is certain to result in Africa's largest country splitting in two, with the non-Muslim south seceding from the Arab-led north....

In this picture taken Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, Justice Chan Reec Madut, center, the chairman of the Southern Sudan Referendum Bureau, discusses the referendum ballot during a press conference in Juba, s

Full View  In this picture taken Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, Justice Chan Reec Madut, center, the chairman of the Southern Sudan Referendum Bureau, discusses the referendum ballot during a press conference in Juba, southern Sudan. The Jan. 9 poll will decide whether Sudan's mainly Christian and animist south can split from its mainly Muslim north. Many Sudanese on both sides of the border are worried the vote could lead to renewed violence or even a return to the two-decade-long north-south civil war ended by a 2005 peace deal....


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