Thursday, February 10, 2011

A minister in southern Sudan killed

The minister of the semi-autonomous southern Sudan on Rural Development and Cooperatives, Jimmy Lemi Milla and his bodyguard were shot dead on Wednesday 9 February. "There was shooting at the ministerial complex in which the Minister of Rural Development and Cooperatives has been killed and his bodyguard," said a spokesman for the Popular Army for the Liberation of Sudan.

"It seems that the head [fire] is the driver of the minister, and he was also killed." Previously he "also killed a guard at the entrance to the ministry," added the spokesman, indicating that the precise reasons for these firings were still undetermined. "They are all from the same ethnic group, and it possible that this is a personal matter," he added.

The final results of the referendum on self-determination in early January, reported Monday confirmed that the South Sudanese had massively voted for the independence of their region, to be announced July 9.

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