Sudan Votes
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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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US steps up efforts on Sudan vote
With Sudan barely 100 days away from a referendum that is likely to split the country and that could even reignite a war, the Obama administration has begun a multifront diplomatic offensive built around incentives to keep Sudan from obstructing the vote.On Sunday, the administration's special envoy to Sudan, Major General Scott Gration, met ...
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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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US steps up efforts on Sudan vote
With Sudan barely 100 days away from a referendum that is likely to split the country and that could even reignite a war, the Obama administration has begun a multifront diplomatic offensive built around incentives to keep Sudan from obstructing the vote.On Sunday, the administration's special envoy to Sudan, Major General Scott Gration, met ...
