SOUTHERN SUDANESE OVERWHELMING VOTES FOR THE SECESSION OF THE COUNTRY MISSED THE TARGET BY FEW MARGIN.

The Southern Sudanese voted overwhelmingly in the first referendum for the secession of an independent Southern Sudan, rather than an independent Southern State of the Republic of Sudan.
However, the eighty three percent (83%) counted votes revealed two percent (2%) less votes than the required eighty five percent (85%) to split Africa's largest country in to two countries the Northern Sudan and the Southern Sudan. The next attempt for the country's secession by referendum may once again take place in about two to five decades.

Written by Godfrey Ohia.