Election Problems Across Africa

July 2011, there will officially be a new Country. Sudan is the biggest Country in Africa and the 10th in the world. The civil war in Sudan has been going on for while, the war in Sudan has been going for 50 years about the time they got there independents. Media tell u that they have been fighting for land which the government believes there is oil, others say that the president Omar Al-Bashir has not been helping the land in the south, thats why the South has been rebelling against the North.

Today they  have decided to split the Country in two the people of the North and the people of the South. In July they will officially split, although they are still deciding who will get the land in the middle which people believe has  lots of oil. Specially that oil is rising making the Country that gets the land in the middle will make good money.

On Monday, the Southern Sudan Referendum

Commission announced in Khartoum that 98.83% of the voters had backed independence.

"Those who voted for unity were 44,888, that is, 1.17%. Those who voted for separation were 3,792,518, that is, 98.83%," commission head Mohamed Ibrahim Khalil said.

The BBC's Peter Martel in the southern capital Juba, says some people have spent most of the day getting ready to celebrate the announcement.

"Now I am a first class citizen in my own country," housewife Abiong Nyok told the BBC.

One woman - a northerner - cried after the announcement, saying she had relatives in the south, the BBC's James Copnall in Khartoum says.

Earlier on Monday, President Bashir reiterated that he would accept the outcome of the vote, allaying fears that the split could re-ignite conflict over the control of the south's oil reserves.

"We accept and welcome these results because they represent the will of the southern people," Mr Bashir said on state TV.

James Copnall says the president has made similar comments before, but this firm and public will reassure any southerners still wondering whether Khartoum would go back on its word.

The president said he was committed to good relations with the future Southern state. The US has said it will remove Sudan from a list of countries it accuses of sponsoring terrorism if the referendum goes well.

South Sudan's leader Salva Kiir pledged co-operation with Khartoum in the future, saying there were "many things that connect the north and the south".

"The (freedom) of the south is not the end of the road, because we cannot be enemies. We must build strong relations," said Mr Kiir, who is also Sudan's Vice-President.

In Washington, President Barack Obama congratulated the people of Southern Sudan for "a 

successful and inspiring" referendum, saying the US intended to formally recognise Southern Sudan in July.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12379431     

Gaddafi Still Refusing to Resign

Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi or also know as EL Gaddafi. He has been the leader of Libya since his successful military coup of 1969. Gaddafi was born in the desert town of Sirt. He came from a Bedouin family who led a nomadic life style. After he had gone to a military college he went to Britain for army training. 


Today the Revolutionary leader is have a civil war with the rebellions the civilized citizen of Libya. The people of Libya are trying to get Gaddafi to resign, but EL Gaddafi said "he will fight until theres no air to breath and that if his own people want to fight then he has weapons and man power to fight and cruse them".


According to articles I have read Gaddafi is a monster sent to Earth to destroy. Relationships with the west got very bad towards the middle of the 1980s. Gaddafi’s administration was made responsible for terrorist attacks all over the world. US President Ronald Reagan called Gaddafi a “mad dog” and sent planes to bomb Libyan cities. In one of the air attacks the Libyan leader almost got killed.

In 1988 270 people were killed by a bomb in a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland. Gaddafi was suspected of letting the bombers hide in his country. The UN imposed sanctions on Libya and isolated the country to get Gaddafi to hand over the terrorists.

Towards the end of the century Gaddafi tried to bring his country out of isolation. He handed the terrorists over to the UN and declared that Libya was behind the bombing. In the last few years Gaddafi has been working hard on normalizing relationships between Libya and the United States.

After Saddam Hussein lost power in 2003 Gaddafi became afraid that he too might have to step down. He allowed weapons inspectors into the country and vowed to dismantle Libya’s weapons of mass destruction. In the last few years Gaddafi turned a statesman and met important western leaders including British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. 


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