United States, China and the European Union announced they would recognize south ... Sudan for a successful and inspiring referendum in which an overwhelmingly majority of voters chose ...

The war ended with a peace agreement that gave southerners the right to vote in an independence referendum, and in 2011, South Sudan became the newest country in the world. SPLM-N, which grew out ...

The administration has announced a new Sudan ... referendum be agreed to in the North and in the South as to whose votes will be counted, what percentage will be required for unity, or for ...

There was no immediate response from South Sudan’s government, which has struggled since independence from Sudan in 2011 to deliver some of the basic services of a state. Years of conflict have ...