UNMIS inaugurates Upper Nile State Referendum Support Base
5 January 2011 - UNMIS Sector Coordinator Hendrik Bruyn today officially opened the first UNMIS Referendum Support Base (RSB) in Renk County, Upper Nile State. Participants at the inauguration included Renk County…
Gressly: Referendum preparations on track
6 January 2011 – Voting in the Southern Sudan self-determination referendum is set to begin on time on the morning of 9 January 2011, according to UNMIS Regional Coordinator for Southern Sudan David Gressly. He congratulated…
SSRC announces number of registered referendum voters
8 January 2011 – A day before polling begins for the Southern Sudan self-determination referendum, the commission in charge of the balloting process disclosed the official number of registered voters and confirmed readiness…
UNMIS donates furniture and equipment to university
7 January 2011 – UNMIS Malakal office donated furniture, appliances, office equipment and other goods to the library of Upper Nile University to replace items that were looted during the bloody February 2009 clashes in…
06 Jan. - Voting in the Southern Sudan referendum
Hosting Mr. David Gressly the Regional Coordinator for Southern Sudan United Nations in Sudan. Read the full transcript
Fashoda County ready to vote in referendum
8 January 2011 - A day before Southern Sudan's self-determination referendum is set to kick off, residents of Fashoda County in Upper Nile State can barely contain their excitement. As observed by an UNMIS Malakal military…
Southern Sudanese go to polls in Khartoum
9 January 2011 – As the weather was slowly warming up this windy morning in Sudan's capital of Khartoum, nine men were sitting on a bench in front of a polling centre, waiting to cast their votes in the country's long-awaited…
Referendum voting begins in Southern Sudan
9 January 2011 – Legions of voters converged on polling centres across Southern Sudan today to cast their ballots in the region's long-awaited referendum on self-determination. Over 3.9 million eligible adults registered to…
One-legged veteran walks three miles to vote
9 January 2011 - With only one leg to carry him, 71-year-old former soldier William Anei Yom Akot made a three-mile trek to reach a referendum polling centre today in Aweil, Northern Bahr El-Ghazal State. Defying the town's…
SRSG Menkerios: Referendum going well
9 January 2011 – The historic Southern Sudan self-determination referendum was proceeding smoothly so far, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) in Sudan Haile Menkerios said today in the Eastern Equatoria…
Reduced turnout marks day two of referendum poll
10 January 2011 - Turnout on the second day of voting for Southern Sudan's self-determination referendum in polling centres of the south appeared considerably reduced compared to the flood of voters witnessed on the previous…
SSRC extends polling hours, voting continues in Khartoum
10 January 2011 – On the second day of polling in the Southern Sudan self-determination referendum, the national commission organizing it announced that one fifth of voters registered in Southern Sudan had voted yesterday…