KHARTOUM, Dec 26, 2009 (AFP) – Amid wrangling in parliament over an independence referendum for south Sudan, southerners in the capital Khartoum look forward with enthusiasm to secession, but the prospect unsettles some.
There are about 520,000 south Sudanese — mostly Christian — living in the Muslim north, according to a northern government census. The southern government says the figure is much higher.
This population, most of which fled the south during a 22-year civil war with the Muslim north that ended in a 2005 power-sharing agreement, is at the centre of a dispute that saw southern MPs withdraw from parliament this week.
حركة العدل و المساواة السودانية
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