“Deadlock Threatens Referendum in South Sudan,” Ruling Party Warns
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Published: August 21, 2010
“Deadlock Threatens Referendum in South Sudan,” Ruling Party Warns
By Shamsydeen Badmus
The ruling party of South Sudan warned on Thursday that a vote on independence due in January will not be possible unless political issues within the country’s referendum commission are resolved in the next two weeks. The Secretary-General of the former southern rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), Pagan Amum, said the referendum commission has reached a deadlock in selecting its main executive position of secretary-general. The referendum will determine whether South Sudan should become an independent state. The vote is part of the 2005 peace deal that ended Sudan’s long civil war, in which an estimated two million people died.
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