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Results
confirm vote for Southern Sudan split
Tuesday February 08, 2011 04:34:48 AM,
DPA
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Southern
Sudan votes overwhelmingly for independence
Just
short of 99 percent of Southern Sudanese have voted to secede from
the north and form an independent state, according to preliminary
results released Sunday. January's referendum was enshrined in a
2005 peace deal that
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Nairobi: Southern Sudan
has overwhelmingly voted to split from the north and create the
world's newest nation, official results released Monday showed.
Earlier, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir said he accepted the
south's decision to become an independent state.
January's referendum was enshrined in a 2005 peace deal that ended
decades of civil war between the mainly Muslim north and Christian
and Animist south.
The official announcement in Khartoum confirmed an earlier
statement by the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission, which
showed 98.83 percent of almost 4 million voters had opted for
independence.
"Today we received these results and we accept and welcome these
results because they represent the will of the southern people,"
Arabic broadcaster al-Jazeera quoted al-Bashir as saying on state
television prior to the announcement.
"But we are committed to the links between the north and the
south, and we are committed to good relations based on
co-operation," he said.
While the poll was generally peaceful, more than 70 died during
fighting between northern and southern tribes in the restive
border region of Abyei as voting took place. Dozens of people were
killed at the weekend when soldiers clashed in Southern Sudan's
Upper Nile State.
More than 2 million southerners died and 4 million were displaced
in Sudan's 1983-2005 north-south civil war, which was essentially
a continuation of the 1955-1972 conflict that followed
independence from joint British and Egyptian rule.
Many issues remain to be resolved after the referendum, including
the final demarcation of the north-south border, which bisects
Sudan's oilfields and leaves most of the precious commodity in the
south. The status of Abyei also has to be decided.
Southern Sudan is reliant on a pipeline running through the north
to get its oil out through the Red Sea, meaning both sides have a
stake in peace.
While southerners are elated at the prospect of independence, aid
agencies say the impoverished region faces huge challenges.
Southern Sudan has only a few dozens kilometres of paved road in a
country the size of France and has appalling development
indicators.
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