Almost half the population of southern Sudan, about four million, has registered to vote in an independence referendum next Monday likely to split Africa's largest country into two separate nations.
The vote is the result of the 2005 deal ending Sudan's civil war, which killed two million.
Vote may split Sudan in two
A southern Sudanese police officer stands guard over recently delivered ballot papers at the airport in Juba, southern Sudan. Photo / AP.
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