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• South Sudan

  Sudan: War, injustice cause secession

  30 January 2011, by WILLIAMS Kerryn

  Celebrations have already begun in the south in anticipation of the long-awaited end to Khartoum’s brutal rule.
  The January 9-15 referendum on self-determination in south Sudan looks certain to result in the division of Sudan into two countries.
  About 96% of the 3.9 million registered voters (...)

• South Sudan

  Sudan: Why the people of the south voted for independence

  27 January 2011, by WILLIAMS Kerryn

  January 27, 2011 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/Green Left Weekly — Sudan’s British colonial rulers laid the foundations for half a century of post-independence conflict and inequality in the south. The British occupiers consciously fostered a divide between the mostly Muslim, (...)

• South Sudan

  South Sudan should not be born into debt

  18 January 2011, by Jubilee Debt Campaign

  The referendum on secession for South Sudan is due to take place on Sunday 9 January. If South Sudan votes to secede a key decision will be on what happens to Sudan’s external debt of $35 billion, $20 billion of which is interest on original loans. |1|
  Tim Jones, policy officer at Jubilee Debt (...)