Last updated: 13 april, 2010 - 08:20 GMT

Two day extension to voting in Sudan

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Today, Tuesday should have been the final day of voting in Sudan's historic elections but the National Election Commission has extended the vote by two days after widespread reports of polling stations opening late, missing materials and voters being confused about where they should cast their ballots.

Uduak Amimo is hosting our coverage in Juba:

  • 0'58" Josephine Hazeley reports on the SPLM's press conference yesterday, in which they criticised the election logistics.
  • 3'18" A round up of how the elections are proceeeding around the country.
  • 4'18" A Sudanese businessman has travelled from the north where he works to his home in the south in order to vote. He speaks to Josephine Hazeley.
  • 7'39" Given the vastness of Sudan; having no multi-party elections experience for 24 years; and high levels of illiteracy, Paul Bakibinga asks Dr Djibrin Ibrahim of the Centre for Democracy and Development in Abuja, Nigeria whether the election's difficulties were in some way inevitable?

Sudan Election 2010

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