Alun McDonald [1] e David McKenzie [2] atualizam o Twitter com as últimas notícias [em inglês] diretamente do Sudão do Sul, onde eleitores estão indo às urnas votar em um referendo [3] para decidir se a região deve permanecer parte do Sudão ou tornar-se independente.
De 5 horas de fila, [4] 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 [5]:
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 [6] 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 [7]:
Russian expat in Juba cooking his own eggs at the breakfast line, Kenyan chef looks on: hilarious #sudan
http://twitpic.com/3op0iw – These 70 year old voted this morning along the white nile early today #sudanref
Rostos risonhos e dedos manchados de tinta [10]:
Back in Juba to lots of smiling faces and ink-stained fingers #Sudanref
E se [11]John Garang [12] 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 [13]:
Kathy, voting with her baby Duku: “I want my kid not to suffer. The suffering ends with me.” #sudanref
Hakim [14]:
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 [15]:
Petronella, recently back from exile: ” It has given me an identity.It has shown me that I have a country now.” #sudanref