Sudan: UN Panel Tours Polling Centres in South’s Independence Referendum

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–10 January 2011 – The independence referendum in South Sudan, which could split Africa’s largest country in two and produce the United Nations’ 193rd Member State, has got off to a good start with officials successfully handling a large initial turnout, the head of the UN monitoring panel has said.

As the week-long vote entered its second day and the 2005 peace agreement that ended 20 years of war between North and South Sudan…