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SUDAN / JUBA VOTE
STORY: SUDAN / JUBA VOTE
TRT: 2:00
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 JANUARY 2011, JUBA, SUDAN
1. Med shot, people walking
2. Close up, feet walking
3. Wide shot, people arriving at a polling centre
4. Med shot, man arriving at the centre
5. Med shot, policeman at the centre
6. Wide shot, people waiting to vote
7. Med shot, woman holding her voting card
8. Close up, finger printing
9. Med shot, women standing in the queue
10. Wide shot, woman voting
11. Med shot, a child seated
12. Med shot, people waiting to vote
13. Close up, male voter
14. Med shot, polling staff directing a voter
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Faustino Tongun Sule, Resident of Pieti Village:
“If we separate tomorrow or the days after, we are Southern Sudanese. If it happens that we separate from the north we can only exchange visits like you would come from Uganda to Juba, in the same way it would be from Juba to Khartoum. There will be two separate heads of state, one in Juba and one in Khartoum but we should remain as good neighbours.”
16. Wide shot, bus picking people from their villages
17. Med shot, people entering the bus
18. Wide shot, bus driving off
19. Med shot, bus outside a polling centre
20. Close up, people inside the bus
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Lekwa James, Resident of Pieti Village:
“The people are supposed to cross the river and the problem of transport because the boat to bring people across is a problem so we had been waiting for them all along.”
22. Wide shot, people at river crossing
23. Med shot, woman crossing the stream
24. Med shot, women and children crossing
Voting continues with thousands lining up across the ten states of Southern Sudan. The vote on unity or secession is the culmination of the 2005 peace deal signed between Sudan’s north and south, ending over two decades of civil war within Africa’s larges country.
Southern Sudanese now has the opportunity to vote in a week long referendum on its future, choosing either a united Sudan or a separate nation in the south.
Many areas of the south are inaccessible due to the vast terrain and poor road networks. Some have to walk for miles to get to polling centres in order to cast their votes.
Pieti Village is just 30 km north of Juba, Southern Sudan’s capital. When the polls opened on the first day the centre was practically empty as many of those who registered come for very far away.
On the second day the centre saw much more activity with people having walked for hours to cast their votes. Despite the long walk, Faustino Tongun was excited about his vote.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Faustino Tongun Sule, Resident of Pieti Village:
“If we separate tomorrow or the days after, we are Southern Sudanese. If it happens that we separate from the north we can only exchange visits like you would come from Uganda to Juba, in the same way it would be from Juba to Khartoum. There will be two separate heads of state, one in Juba and one in Khartoum but we should remain as good neighbours.”
People have to walk long distances from one village to the other with no services along the way. Village elders in Pieti have organised buses to pick up residents from far away villages to bring them to the polling centres. Some even have to cross rivers along the Nile plain to get to the centres.
SOUNDBITE (English) Lekwa James, Resident of Pieti Village:
“The people are supposed to cross the river and the problem of transport because the boat to bring people across is a problem so we had been waiting for them all along.”
Voting is set to continue till 15 January with final results expected by 15 February.
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