{"id":24300,"date":"2011-01-31T16:19:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T16:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_its_official_south_sudan_set_to_secede_with_a_99-57_percent_vote\/"},"modified":"2011-01-31T16:19:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T16:19:01","slug":"csm_its_official_south_sudan_set_to_secede_with_a_99-57_percent_vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24300","title":{"rendered":"(CSM) It&#39;s official: South Sudan set to secede with a 99.57 percent vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheers and spontaneous dancing broke out as the first official announcement of results from South Sudan\u2019s independence vote was made in the oil-rich region\u2019s capital by members of commission that organized the referendum held earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vote for separation was 99.57 percent,&#8221; said Justice Chan Reec Madut, head of the southern bureau of the Referendum Commission, after reading the vote tallies for \u201cunity\u201d\u009d and \u201csecession\u201d\u009d for each of the south\u2019s 10 states. Mr. Madut was referring to the results for the south, while Mohamed Ibrahim Khalil, the head of the Commission, announced the results from polling in northern Sudan and in eight countries that held voting for South Sudan\u2019s far-flung diaspora population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Africa\/2011\/0130\/It-s-official-South-Sudan-set-to-secede-with-a-99.57-percent-vote\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheers and spontaneous dancing broke out as the first official announcement of results from South Sudan\u2019s independence vote was made in the oil-rich region\u2019s capital by members of commission that organized the referendum held earlier this month. &#8220;The vote for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24300\">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":[40,50,202,151,346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-politics-in-general","category-sudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300","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=24300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}