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South Sudan's president Salva Kiir voted in the region in a referendum on secession on Sunday.Kiir cast his vote just after 8 a.m. (local time) in the southern capital of Juba. This is a historic moment, the people of southern Sudan have been waiting for, and I would like to call upon all the southern Sudanese people to be patient in case one does not get time to cast his or her vote today, he said. Millions of Southern Sudanese are participating in the long-awaited independence referendum that is expected see their war-ravaged region emerge as a new nation after decades of civil war and perceived repression by north Sudan. The referendum was promised in a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war, fuelled by oil and ethnicity, between the mostly Muslim north and the south, where most people follow
