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US to recognize Southern Sudan as independent nation
Congratulating the people of Southern Sudan for a successful and inspiring referendum in which an overwhelming majority of them chose independence, US President Barack Obama has announced his intention to formally recognize it as a sovereign and an independent state."We will work with the governments of Sudan and Southern Sudan to ensure a smooth a...
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Sudan votes to create new country
Polls closed in the Southern Sudan capital of Juba on Sunday, on the first day of voting in a week-long independence referendum likely to create the world's newest nation, about five years after the end of a brutal civil war there.The mainly Christian south is widely expected to secede from the mainly Muslim north, splitting Africa's largest countr...
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Sudan says it is committed to independence vote
Sudan's Foreign Minister assured the UN Security Council on Saturday that the government is committed to holding a referendum on southern independence that is expected to split the country in two.Addressing Security Council members wrapping up a fact-finding trip to Sudan and Uganda, Ali Karti said the government's sole condition was no outside int...
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US to recognize Southern Sudan as independent nation
Congratulating the people of Southern Sudan for a successful and inspiring referendum in which an overwhelming majority of them chose independence, US President Barack Obama has announced his intention to formally recognize it as a sovereign and an independent state."We will work with the governments of Sudan and Southern Sudan to ensure a smooth a...
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Sudan votes to create new country
Polls closed in the Southern Sudan capital of Juba on Sunday, on the first day of voting in a week-long independence referendum likely to create the world's newest nation, about five years after the end of a brutal civil war there.The mainly Christian south is widely expected to secede from the mainly Muslim north, splitting Africa's largest countr...
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Sudan says it is committed to independence vote
Sudan's Foreign Minister assured the UN Security Council on Saturday that the government is committed to holding a referendum on southern independence that is expected to split the country in two.Addressing Security Council members wrapping up a fact-finding trip to Sudan and Uganda, Ali Karti said the government's sole condition was no outside int...
