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Scenes from Sudan - The Big Picture

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(Women from a local tribe sit in an open market in Kapoeta in Budy county, eastern Equatoria State, south Sudan, April 4, 2010. [REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic])

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Residents of the African nation of Sudan recently cast votes in the first national election in over 20 years. Official results are still forthcoming, but early indications show that President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is set to win a landslide victory. Opposition parties are threatening to boycott the results, as a statement from the U.S. White House described the election as plagued by "serious irregularities". Sudan remains a country with serious problems from conflict in Darfur and ongoing humanitarian crises in refugee camps and several drought-stricken regions. The election is also seen as prelude to another upcoming vote: a referendum of independence for Southern Sudan in 2011 that could create a new African nation. Collected here are recent photos from Sudan. (38 photos total)
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  • TheForeteller
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  • bailey78
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    • I am always amazed at how diffrent other lands are. Like the pyramids in the Meroe desert north of Khartoum, I never knew that there were other pyramids Besides the ones in Egypt. the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan sounds like it was at one time the center of commerce an may have been a beautiful place to live. Not that it's a bad place now. I'm sure that with the right Goverment in place it could once again be a beautiful place for all the people that live there. I really feel bad for those that have to live under those conditions. Every time I see Photo's of lands like this I remember just how lucky I really am.

    • 2 years ago
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    • A Sudanese boy holds a bunch of southern Sudan flags that he and other street children picked up from the ground, after a political rally in Juba on April 09, 2010. Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir and his remaining challengers addressed supporters on the last day of campaigning for elections that have been overshadowed by opposition boycotts. The southern former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement said it was also withdrawing from simultaneous parliamentary and state elections in all northern states except the disputed Blue Nile and south Kordofan districts, after its candidate, Yasser Arman, pulled out of the presidential race. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

    • 2 years ago
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      Villagers from Dadinga tribe fight for food after World Food Program (WFP) staff distributed food supplies in the village of Lauro in Budy county in Eastern Equatoria State, south Sudan, April 2, 2010. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

    • 2 years ago
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      Two-year-old Dhoal, a child suffering from severe malnutrition, is swarmed with flies as he sits on a bed at a local hospital in the southeast Sudanese town of Akobo on April 10, 2010. The population in Akobo and the surrounding counties in the Jonglei state in southern Sudan are suffering from the effects of a devastating drought and tribal conflict. Aid officials have called Akobo the "hungriest place on earth," after a survey showed that 46 percent of children under five are malnourished. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

    • 2 years ago
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      A Sudanese man sits on a camel as he looks at the pyramids in the Meroe desert, north of Khartoum, on February 26, 2010. There was not a tourist in sight as the sun set over sand-swept pyramids at Meroe, but archaeologists say the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan holds mysteries to rival ancient Egypt. (ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)

    • 2 years ago
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      Straw huts appear on a mostly dusty parched plain in the southeastern Sudanese town of Akobo on April 10, 2010. The population in Akobo and the surrounding counties neighboring Akobo in the Jonglei state in southern Sudan are suffering the effects of a devastating drought and tribal conflict. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

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      A Sudanese refugee woman fills in her voting form at a polling station at the refugee camp of Zamzam at the outskirts of the Darfur town of al-Fasher, Sudan Monday, April 12, 2010 during the second day of the ongoing multiparty general elections in Sudan. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

    • 2 years ago
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      Wearing his trademark cowboy hat, Southern Sudan President and elections candidate Salva Kiir speaks at the last election rally in Juba, Southern Sudan, Friday April 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

    • 2 years ago
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      April 30, 2010
      Election Results from Sudan and the Challenges that Follow

      Omar al-Bashir, who originally came to power in a 1989 military coup, won Sudan’s presidency with an official vote count of 68%. The unsurprising outcome was widely criticized by international observers who cited election-related reports of intimidation, gerrymandering, and fraud. In South Sudan, incumbent candidate Salva Kiir won 93% of the vote to remain in office as president of the semiautonomous region, which is expected to vote for succession from Sudan next year. Leaders and parties in the south, however, are hardly united on the region’s internal issues. Nine southern opposition parties have decided to challenge Mr. Kiir’s victory — and the count of 93% — in court.

      Intensifying tensions along the north-south border, dozens were killed last week in clashes between SPLM soldiers and the Rizeigat tribe in the area between Western Bahr el-Ghazal and South Darfur. In an unrelated instance, on April 30, mutinous SPLM soldiers attacked an army barrack near Malakal and killed a number of people. The episodes of violence underscore the urgency and importance of resolving the common issues that face the north and south ahead of the referendum, including the demarcation of the border and the division of the oil fields.

    • 2 years ago
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