SUDAN / VOTER EDUCATION

Women Initiatives Group works with the Southern Referendum Commission, UN agencies and non-government organizations to organize an awareness campaign to educate southern Sudanese on how to vote in referendum. UNMIS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:24
• Production Date: 7 January 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS ASSISTANCE MISSION IN SUDAN - UNMIS
• Subject Topical: REFERENDUM
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U110107g

Description

STORY: SUDAN / VOTER EDUCATION
TRT: 1:24
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 7 JANUARY 2011, KHARTOUM, SUDAN

Shotlist

1. Pan right, people celebrating
2. Med shot, people distributing T-Shirts
3. SOUNSBITE (Arabic) Martin Walliam:
“I have been trained on voters and all stages of referendum. I have started from registration up to the voting. Then I have started to train voters and teach them how to go to vote.”
4. Med shot, people reading pamphlets
5. Close up, pamphlets
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Flip Nsyoun:
“Today we are going to campaign and then we are going to make an awareness on referendum by the end of today which is the last day. We are going to see people how they are going to use the ballot papers when they enter the polling station by tomorrow.”
10. Wide shot, a number of people dancing
11. Med shot, people dancing
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Samuel Tor Major:
“My feeling is normal because it’s a Sudanese democratic experience. We are democrats in all corners of the country. So the referendum is very normal process, no problem will happen. If any problem happens may be it comes from the politicians but not the grassroots which will vote transparently.”
13. Wide shot, a man hanging posters on wall
14. Med shot, voting posters, a man stands near

Storyline

Women Initiatives Group in coordination with United Nations agencies, non-governmental organizations and the Southern Referendum Commission (SSRC) organized an awareness campaign to educate southern Sudanese on how to vote in the upcoming referendum.

The campaign targeted all the remote areas where the southern people live.

Martin Walliam, a teacher involved in the campaign, has been involved in the various stages of the referendum process and is now training voters on how to vote.

Similarly Flip Nsyoun, also involved in the campaign, talked about educating people on the use of ballot papers. His co-worker Samuel Tor Major called the referendum a “democratic experience.”

Almost four million southern Sudanese have registered to vote in a milestone process of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005 to end a two decade war between north and south Sudan where close to two million people were killed and four million others displaced.

Sixty percent of those who registered are expected to turn up during the vote for it to be considered valid. Those voting are expected to vote for either unity or secession.