Alun McDonald e David McKenzie atualizam o Twitter com as últimas notícias [em inglês] diretamente do Sudão do Sul, onde eleitores estão indo às urnas votar em um referendo para decidir se a região deve permanecer parte do Sudão ou tornar-se independente.

De 5 horas de fila, restam eleitores pingados:

Only a trickle of voters now at John Garang’s Mausoleum. 5 hour queues on Sunday, now in and out in 5 mins #Sudanref

Um eleitor com uma perna estilhaçada por bala:

A war vet in 70s with a leg shattered by a bullet one of the 1st to vote. “I have to…I have to, even through this hardship.” #sudanref

Voto pela liberdade e o adeus ao Norte:

Bumped into an old friend from Khartoum in Juba market – he just returned home to “vote for freedom & say goodbye to the North”

Um expatriado russo cozinhando em um restaurante em Juba:

Russian expat in Juba cooking his own eggs at the breakfast line, Kenyan chef looks on: hilarious #sudan

Eleitores septuagenários:

http://twitpic.com/3op0iw – These 70 year old voted this morning along the white nile early today #sudanref

Eleitores septuagenários no Sudão do Sul. Foto: cortesia de David McKenzie

Rostos risonhos e dedos manchados de tinta:

Back in Juba to lots of smiling faces and ink-stained fingers #Sudanref

E se John Garang estivesse vivo?

How different would this week have been if John Garang was still alive – would we now be looking at unity? #Sudanref #Sudan

Testimunhos dos eleitores

Kathy:

Kathy, voting with her baby Duku: “I want my kid not to suffer. The suffering ends with me.” #sudanref

Hakim:

Hakim, on a ferry for 12 days from Khartoum, “It is my own place, my own country, I must come back to be among my people.”

Petronella:

Petronella, recently back from exile: ” It has given me an identity.It has shown me that I have a country now.” #sudanref