Southern Sudan: At the birth of a new nation, a leader forgives
Exhausted poll workers who counted ballots overnight and deep into yesterday morning posted returns at individual stations, and an independent count of a small sample showed a 96 per cent vote for secession.
Sudan's south ended its independence vote on Saturday, a vote which will split Africa's largest country in two at the divide between Sudan's Muslim north and Christian and animist south. The two sides ended a more than two-decade civil war in 2005 in a peace deal that provided for last week's vote on independence.
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Hide AdAt a church yesterday Southern Sudan president Salva Kiir said: "For our deceased brothers and sisters, particularly those who have fallen during the time of the struggle, may God bless them with eternal peace."