Last updated: 12 april, 2010 - 13:19 GMT

Sudan's second day of voting

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Polls are open on the second day of Sudan's historic general elections.

Pressure is mounting on the National Election Commission after a delayed start yesterday to the three day exercise in many parts of the country.

There has been a lot of frustration with what the Electoral Commission has acknowledged as "mistakes" in distributing ballot papers in some areas, problems of a mismatch of symbols with candidates, and in some places missing boxes.

  • 0'31" James Copnall reports from a polling centre in Khartoum where things are quieter than yesterday.
  • 2'41" Uduak Amimo reports from Juba where the SPLM want and extension to voting to allow everyone a chance to vote.
  • 3'21" Josephine Hazeley asks the chair of the South Sudan High Election Committee, Anthony Ariki Lowly whether he accepted any responsibility for the confusion on the first day of the vote.
  • 5'54" James Copnall asks an election observer for his view of poll conduct so far.
  • 8'19" Thousands of Sudanese abroad have also been voting. On the line to New York, Akwasi Sarpong spoke to Abdulmahmood Abdul Haleem Mohammed, Sudan's ambassador to the United Nations to find out how the voting has gone so far for Sudanese living in the US.

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