Southern Sudan to gain independence

Southern Sudan to gain independence

JUBA, Sudan - Southern Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit delivers a speech on Jan. 30, 2011, after a referendum commission announced that over 99 percent of voters in Southern Sudan had voted for secession from the north, ensuring that the oil-rich region will become Africa's 54th state as early as in July after decades of civil war.

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