Anyanya One veteran casts his vote
10 January 2011 – Jeremiah Gony Shuei was a young man of 23 when he joined the Anyanya One rebels in 1963 who were fighting to overthrow the regime of Gen. Ibrahim Abboud. He can still recall the 15-day-long trek that he and…
Blind voter foresees bright future
10 January 2011 – Mateo Lodu Tongun could barely contain his excitement as he waited to vote in the Southern Sudanese referendum at Peiti Polling Centre, some 20 kilometres from the regional capital of Juba. Born in the early…
LRA victim arrives by ambulance to vote
11 January 2011 - Tabita Nambugo had been a patient in the maternity wing at the Maridi Hospital for 18 days when the Southern Sudanese referendum vote began on 9 January. She arrived there following a 21 December Lords…
High number of votes cast by third day
11 January 2011 - As the Southern Sudan self-determination referendum entered its third day, a top polling official said initial results from the region could be announced by the end of the month. Speaking at a press…
Over 200 UNV volunteers support referendum
12 January 2011 – Representing the majority of UN electoral and referendum field staff, 214 UN Volunteers (UNVs) from 70 countries are deployed throughout Sudan to directly support the Southern Sudan referendum. Working with…
Border area voting drops, but situation calm
11 January 2011 – By the third day of polling in Southern Sudan's self-determination referendum, voter turnout in Kallagan Payam along the disputed border between the north and south was dwindling. Lack of transportation to…
Never too old to vote
12 January 2011 – Akot Chan Chol Ater, 96, never imagined he would live to participate in either this month's self-determination referendum in Southern Sudan or the general election of April 2010. "I thank God for all his…
First-time voters cast referendum ballots in Uganda
12 January 2011 - Jubilant Southern Sudanese expatriates who settled in Uganda after fleeing Sudan's second civil war flocked in large numbers to polling centres in the national capital of Kampala this week. Voters assigned…
UNSG Panel: Ballots, not bullets
12 January 2011 – Stressing that ballots must replace bullets, Antonio Monteiro of the UN Secretary General's Panel on the Referenda in Sudan visited four polling centres today in the Northern Bahr El-Ghazal capital of Aweil…
Sultans raise post-referendum concerns to UNSG panel
13 January, 2011 – On the fifth day of polling for the Southern Sudan referendum, local tribal leaders in River Nile State assured the UN Secretary-General's monitoring panel that the process was proceeding fairly, but…
Food prices jump in Juba
13 January 2011 -- Food prices in Juba have been rising in recent weeks as some jittery foreign merchants pulled out of the region before the start of voting in the Southern Sudan referendum. The trend began in the first half…
Returnees voting in referendum
13 January 2011 – One day before voting began in the Southern Sudan referendum, Khamis Unywok packed up his wife, five children and all their belongings to return to his birthplace. The family boarded a truck bound for the…