{"id":23550,"date":"2010-12-21T03:30:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T03:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/an_article_from_der_spiegel_on_the_approaching_referendum_in_sudan\/"},"modified":"2010-12-21T03:30:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T03:30:53","slug":"an_article_from_der_spiegel_on_the_approaching_referendum_in_sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23550","title":{"rendered":"An Article from Der Spiegel on the Approaching Referendum in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Southern Sudan will soon decide whether to secede from Sudan. Many anticipate that the referendum could result in renewed violence between the north and the south. Southern Sudan&#8217;s regional representative in Cairo, Ruben Marial Benjamin, spoke with SPIEGEL about the approaching ballot.<\/p>\n<p>SPIEGEL: On Jan. 9, 2011, Southern Sudan will vote on secession from the republic of Sudan. Are you certain that the majority will vote for secession?<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin: Yes, we are already flying the flag of an independent state on our government buildings. The government in Khartoum doesn&#8217;t have anything against it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,735631,00.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Southern Sudan will soon decide whether to secede from Sudan. Many anticipate that the referendum could result in renewed violence between the north and the south. Southern Sudan&#8217;s regional representative in Cairo, Ruben Marial Benjamin, spoke with SPIEGEL<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23550\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,202,151,346,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-politics-in-general","category-sudan","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}