A referendum on Sudan's contested border town of Abyei might not happen Jan. 9 as planned, said a representative of the Government of Southern Sudan on Tuesday, and legal challenges to the vote on southern secession already have begun.
Margaret Warner talks to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice about the ethnic tension in Sudan ahead of an important referendum on whether the oil-rich South should secede.
Activists and analysts fear Sudan could be on the brink of another civil war if the oil-rich south votes to break away from the north in a Jan. 9 referendum. The issue has gotten some new attention this week thanks…
The timing of the Jan. 9 vote on whether Sudan will become two countries is "set in stone," despite some major unresolved issues from distribution of oil wealth to citizenship rights, State Department officials said Thursday.
Abyei, a village in central Sudan that is still crawling out of its violence-ravaged past, has become one of the keys to holding a peaceful referendum in January.
On the heels of his speech to the U.N. General Assembly, President Obama threw his weight behind other U.N. members Friday urging Sudan to carry out its January referendum on southern independence peacefully and on time.
In other news Monday, the International Criminal Court at The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Swiss authorities freed movie director Roman Polanski from electronic monitoring after rejecting extradition requests by the U.S.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was sworn in Thursday to another five-year term, pledging the country would not return to war and that a referendum vote on the south splitting from the north would proceed next year as planned.
In other news Thursday, at least 73 people have died in Jamaica during four days of gun battles between police and supporters of accused drug kingpin Christopher Coke and the president of Sudan was sworn in for another five-year term…
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir won re-election, according to official results released Monday, in elections held earlier in the month that independent monitors said fell short of international standards.
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