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Sudan Referendum Approaches, Highlighting Health, Development Challenges Facing The South
"Southern Sudan is scheduled to start voting on January 9 on whether to become an independent country or remain part of Sudan, Africa's largest nation which has been wracked by decades of conflict," CNN reports (Wilkinson, 1/5). On Tuesday during a visit to the southern capital of Juba, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir "said he would celebrate the results of the referendum even if the south chooses to secede, and pledged last week to help build a secure, stable and 'brotherly' southern state if it votes for independence," Agence France-Presse reports.
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