SUDAN / REFERENDUM RESULTS REAX

In Juba, the capital of Southern South, residents gather at the John Garang mausoleum to watch the announcement projected on a screen close to the tomb where the late Southern Sudanese leader John Garang lies. UNMIS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:21
• Production Date: 7 February 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS ASSISTANCE MISSION IN SUDAN - UNMIS
• Subject Topical: ELECTIONS
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN
• MAMS Id: U110207g

Description

STORY: SUDAN / REFERENDUM RESULTS REAX
TRT: 2.21
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 7 FEBRUARY 2011, JUBA, SUDAN

Shotlist

1. Med shot, women dancing
2. Wide shot, SPLM flag waved by dancing women
3. Med shot, boy holding SPLM flag
4. Wide shot, pan right, crowd watching the announcement on projections screen
5. Med shot, people watching the announcement
6. Med shot, Southern Sudan Referendum Commission (SSRC) Chairman announcing the final results
7. Wide shot, people waving flags in celebration
8. Med shot, people celebrating
9 SOUNDBITE (English) David Gai, Southern Sudanese:
"I am feeling very happy today I am very excited. I went to the bush in 1894 and I didn’t imagine this will be only the last journey. I am very happy today to be among the generation who is celebrating the independence of southern Sudan today. I am very happy and I thank God I make it. It makes it through the gun, I make it through prayers, I make it through my people, I make through cultivations, and this is my country today. I win it, I am very happy, very excited"
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Gabriel Majak, Southern Sudanese:
“In was born in this crisis, and from today, I am very happy. So today I will put my gun down and I will go to school, study like the rest of other African countries like Ugandan, Kenya and some other countries. So we are happy today, it was a moment we were waiting for and everybody is happy today because what we were praying for… we prayed to God so that we have our country, we have our country called southern Sudan, the new born nation, so we are happy today.”
11. Wide shot, people dancing
12. Med shot, man drumming
13. Med shot men dancing

STORYLNE:

The final results of Southern Sudan’s historic referendum have been officially announced, with 98.83 percent of southern Sudanese voting to secede from the north.

Earlier in the day, the body that was responsible for the plebiscite, the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission (SSRC) presented the final results to president Omar al-Bashir in Khartoum. Addressing the nation on state television, president Bashir said he had received the results and accepted it because it represented the will of the southern people.

In Juba, the capital of Southern South, residents gathered at the John Garang mausoleum to watch the announcement projected on a screen close the tomb where the late Southern Sudanese leader John Garang lies.

Women ululated and people cheered waving the SPLM flag in celebration of the final results that confirms the splitting of Sudan into two separated nations come July 9th 2011.

Southern Sudanese from all works of life came to join in the celebrations. David Gai was a fighter during
Sudan civil war, he says he did not imagine this day would come.

SOUNDBITE (English) David Gai, Southern Sudanese:
"I am feeling very happy today I am very excited. I went to the bush in 1894 and I didn’t imagine this will be only the last journey. I am very happy today to be among the generation who is celebrating the independence of southern Sudan today. I am very happy and I thank God I make it. It makes it through the gun, I make it through prayers, I make it through my people, I make through cultivations, and this is my country today. I win it, I am very happy, very excited"

Gabriel is excited about at the prospect of going to school now that he knows the years of war are finally over.

SOUNDBITE (English) Gabriel Majak, Southern Sudanese:
“In was born in this crisis, and from today, I am very happy. So today I will put my gun down and I will go to school, study like the rest of other African countries like Ugandan, Kenya and some other countries. So we are happy today, it was a moment we were waiting for and everybody is happy today because what we were praying for… we prayed to God so that we have our country, we have our country called southern Sudan, the new born nation, so we are happy today.”

The referendum is a culmination of the 2005 peace deal that ended over 2 decades of war in the Sudan. With the final results announced, southern Sudan will soon become Africa’s newest nation, when the interim period of Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA)between the north and the south come to an end on the 9th of July.