Khartoum — The chief of the body tasked with organizing south Sudan's vote on independence is going to ask the country's political leaders to delay the referendum for three weeks, a move likely to draw the ire of southerners if confirmed.
The referendum vote on south Sudan's possible secession from the north is scheduled to take place on 9 January 2011. The vote is the terminus of a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war between north and south Sudan.
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