SOUTHERN SUDAN. Juba. January 9, 2011.
Senator John KERRY and actor Georges CLOONEY at main polling centre of JUBA during the opening of the vote for referendum.
Juba is expected to become the capital of Southern Sudan if its people vote in favour of seceding from the North in the referendum that took place between January 9th-15th 2011. The referendum is one of the consequences of the 2005 Naivasha Agreement between the central government of Sudan in Khartoum and the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M).