Sudan Approves Law on Referendum on Possible South Independence

(30 Dec 09 - RV) Sudan's parliament on Tuesday passed a long-disputed law governing a referendum on independence for the south of the country. The vote in January 2011 will almost certainly lead to southern Sudan voting to separate from the north, with which it fought a decades long civil war that cost the lives of two million people, and ended in 2005. We have this report...