SUDAN / NEC RESULTS

Sudan's National Elections Commission announces it has achieved over 80 percent voter registration ahead of the country's first democratic elections in over 20 years. UNTV / FILE

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:36
• Production Date: 14 December 2009
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS ASSISTANCE MISSION IN SUDAN - UNMIS
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL AFFAIRS; LAW; INTERNATIONAL LAW; POLITICAL CONDITIONS; PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U091214d

Description

STORY: SUDAN / NATIONAL ELECTIONS COMMISSION
TRT: 1:36
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 13 DECEMBER 2009, KHARTOUM, SUDAN / FILE

Shotlist

13 DECEMBER 2009, KHARTOUM, SUDAN

1. Wide shot, exterior National Election Commission press centre
2. Close up, National Election Commission sign
3. Wide shot, press conference
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Al Hadi Muhammad Ahmed, Head of the National Election Commission’s Registration Committee:
“The total of the registration up to now is 15,778,154. This percentage is 81 percent of the targeted number of people who are above 18 years according to the census.”

FILE – 5 NOVEMBER 2009, KHARTOUM, SUDAN

5. Wide shot, voter registration centre
6. Close up, registration kit box
7. Med shot, old man registering

13 DECEMBER 2009, KHARTOUM, SUDAN

8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Al Hadi Muhammad Ahmed, Head of the National Election Commission’s Registration Committee:
“Some few problems show up, there was misunderstanding in Darfur, South Kordofan and the southern states but all these problems were solve in the administrative way.”
9. Cutaway, journalists
10. Pan right, press conference.

FILE - 5 NOVEMBER 2009 KHARTOUM, SUDAN

11. Med shot, women at registering counter
12. Close up, lady smiling
13. Close up, passport
14. Wide shot, ladies walking out of frame.

Storyline

Sudan’s National Elections Commission (NEC) recently announced that it has achieved over 80 percent voter registration ahead of the country’s first democratic elections in over 20 years.

“The total of the registration up to now is 15,778,154. This percentage is 81 percent of the targeted number of people who are above 18 yrs according to the census,” said a NEC official at a news conference held yesterday (13 December 2009) in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum.

Voter registration began last month ahead of the country’s first Presidential and Legislative elections to be held early next year.

The upcoming elections will be Sudan’s first democratic elections since 1989. Last month, the NEC decided to delay the voting date from April 5 to April 11 2010 saying that it needed more time to register voters.

Today, despite a few administrative problems such as the lack of voting information available in locations in Darfur, South Kordofan and the southern states, the NEC is expected to meet its December 7 2009 deadline.

Sudan finances the majority of the registration process while 43 percent comes from donors.

Next year’s general election is one of the benchmarks of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed between the National Congress Party and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in 2005.