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SUDAN / REGISTRATION REFERENDUM
STORY: SUDAN / REGISTRATION REFERENDUM
TRT: 2:02
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26, 29, NOVEMBER, 2010, JUBA, SUDAN
29 NOVEMBER 2010, JUBA, SUDAN
1. Wide shot, Southern Sudan Referendum Bureau (SSRB)
2. Close up, sign of SSRB
3. Wide shot, returnees SSRB Referendum Operations Supervisor
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Achier Deng Akol Ayay, Supervisor of Referendum Operations in Southern Sudan:
“The Southern Sudan Referendum Commission has indeed extended registration for one week for technical reasons and that means the deadline for the last date of registration will no more be the 1st of December, it will be the 8 of December 2010.”
26 NOVEMBER 2010, JUBA, SUDAN
5. Med shot, sign reading “Referendum Centre”
6. Wide shot, people waiting at a registration centre
7. Med shot, women waiting to be registered
8. Wide shot, women running to get into line to register
9. Med shot, people in line
10. Med shot, registration books inside a box
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Zachariah Malok Majok, Referendum Centre Coordinator:
“This place especially has been over crowded, we tried to manage registration but our registration staff where very few. The turnout is so big, people here are overcrowded and we run out of registration books, so we went to the other centre to borrow some, that’s why you have seen people are standing since yesterday. We have got no books up till now we brought some, just ten for two thousand people.”
12. Med shot, people standing in line
13. Close up, tilt from baby women standing in line
14. Close up, registration book being filled
15. Wide shot, women carrying her baby, putting her thumb print in registration book
Voter registration for the Southern Sudan referendum process has been extended by an extra week, but this will not change the date of the referendum according to the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission.
The voter registration for the 9 January plebiscite began on 15 November and was to run for 17 days, but an announcement by the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission last week, has added more time, hoping that more eligible voters will take part.
SOUNDBITE (English) Achier Deng Akol Ayay, Supervisor of Referendum Operations in Southern Sudan:
“The Southern Sudan Referendum Commission has indeed extended registration for one week for technical reasons and that means the deadline for the last date of registration will no more be the 1st of December, it will be the 8 of December 2010.”
The registration kicked off to large turnouts in Southern Sudan, while some centres in the North remain almost empty. So far over a million people have been registered in the South with people having to wait as registration books run out at some centres.
SOUNDBITE (English) Zachariah Malok Majok, Referendum Centre Coordinator:
“This place especially has been over crowded, we tried to manage registration but our registration staff where very few. The turnout is so big, people here are overcrowded and we run out of registration books, so we went to the other centre to borrow some, that’s why you have seen people are standing since yesterday. We have got no books up till now we brought some, just ten for two thousand people.”
Since the registration began there has been low numbers of women participating in the process.
In a bid to get more people registered, the Government of Southern Sudan issued a presidential decree, giving a five day holiday to its members, for them to go to their constituencies to rally people to register. Southern Sudan’s vast and mostly inaccessible terrain pose a big challenge for the process.
The 9 January referendum is part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended over two decades of war between North and South Sudan. Southern Sudanese will get the opportunity to vote for the unity of the Sudan or for secession of the South.
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