Our New State SOuth Sudan

Hundreds of south Sudanese danced, screamed and waved flags as the announcement was broadcast on a line of TV sets in a square in the center of the southern capital Juba, South and North are not two different states, I guess we have to edit the geographical maps now...
A total of 98.83 percent of voters from Sudan's oil-producing south chose to secede from the north in last month's referendum, the chairman of the vote's organizing commission Mohammed Ibrahim Khalil said.

Women get emotional after announcement of results

The formal announcement in Khartoum was disrupted by one northern woman who began wailing in grief and was led from the room. "Sudan is one country. Why should it separate?" she told journalists, saying she had relatives in the south....As much that is true and painful, I guess we have to understand we cant let them go on oppressing each other like this for decades and decades...what we need is to see peace in Sudan right? What ever means it will come by...Sad that the prerequisite was separation.

Both sides avoided major outbreaks of violence over the past five years. But they failed to overcome decades of deep mutual distrust to persuade southerners to embrace unity.
Many southerners see the vote as a chance to end years of northern repression, which they say stretches back through years of civil war to 19th-century raids by slave traders.
Source: Reuteurs