“So the sundering of Sudan, Africa’s biggest country, would represent an unprecedented challenge to the historical status quo.
“It is being watched closely in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, which has its own, sometimes violent schism between a predominantly Muslim north and largely Christian, oil-rich south.”
Sudan: History of a Broken Land
Source: Al Jazeera
ELECTION UPDATE:
- At least 36 people died in clashes between Arab nomads and southerners near Sudan’s north-south border on second day of a vote on southern independence.
- Spokesman for Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir confirmed his offer to take on all of country’s crippling debt if the south seceded, saying the north, south and the international community had a “joint responsibility” to work towards debt relief.
- Northern Sudanese army denied its connection with the clashes.
Source: Alertnet
