ROME - After three days of voting quorum was exceeded by 60% participation of registered voters, required for the validity of the referendum on the independence of southern Sudan from the rest of the country. The announcement was Anne Itto, a spokesman for the SPLM, the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement, a party born from the ashes of the former rebel group that now rules the South''has been reached 60% - reported Itto - but we want 100% attendance.'' The consultation provided for in the 2005 peace that ended the longest civil war in the history of modern Africa, began Sunday and will run until next Saturday.Preliminary results are expected in early February, while the final will be formalized in the middle of the month. For the secession of Southern Sudan from the Islamic North, a predominantly Christian and animist, will be sold for 50% of the votes plus one. There are about four million beneficiaries who have registered in the lists referendum, and in areas south of the country is located in the communities in the North or abroad.
And from next July, the Sudan could be removed from the list of countries that Washington considers sponsors of terrorism if Khartoum will respect the results of self-determination referendum underway in Southern Sudan. He said yesterday a U.S. official. "If the referendum will turn right and the government will recognize the outcome, the president Barack Obama will announce his intention to initiate proceedings to withdraw" the Sudan from the blacklist, the AFP said the main U.S.
negotiator in Sudan, Princeton Lyman. To be removed from the list of countries supporting terrorism - where it is in the company of Cuba, Iran, Syria, Khartoum will also help stop "directly or indirectly" terrorist movements, said Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Johnnie Carson .
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