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were actually 99.57 percent approval has been counted. About 3.8 of the nearly 4 million registered voters in the referendum by the 9th to 15 Participated in January and thus fulfilled the conditions laid down in the peace agreement. After this had to attend at least 60 percent of registered voters. Only 45,000 voters who voted for the unit.
begins on Tuesday, a week-long period, may bring in the Sudanese Constitutional Court appeals against the result. In 7 of the 76 counties have more voters, for example, voted than were registered. Final independent of South Sudan is, however, until 9 July. Until then, does the transitional period. From then on, the sovereign state apply for membership in regional and international organizations.
The current chairman of the African Union (AU), Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharik has announced that the AU will accept as the first organization to southern Sudan as a state. Southern Sudan President Salva Kiir was in at the AU summit in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, already as a sovereign head of state. Last week he was already celebrating the birth of Southern Sudan's own air force with ten helicopters. In a speech to Parliament, he compared the referendum with the "last bullet" which was shot in a long struggle now. "Now we need we wait and see if that ball hits the target or not, "said Kiir. He also forbade his army to fire to celebrate the independence of salutes.
Sudanese President Omar Bashir had promised to the North would accept the results and the total government debt over it. But Bashir now seems to come under pressure. Sudanese youth gearing up in Khartoum in any case starting to protest. on Facebook and in e-mail messages it calls for meetings. "It is the right time, against oppression and despair to protest, "it says in an e-mail, the
Sunday Tribune.
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