Huge turnout on second day of south Sudan voting
Repeating the jubilant scenes witnessed on Sunday, huge queues formed outside polling stations in the regional capital Juba from long before dawn as voters seized the chance to have their say on whether to split Africa’s largest nation and put the seal on five decades of north-south conflict.
The scale of the turnout on the first of the seven days of polling has already put the south well on the way to reaching the 60% threshold set by a 2005 peace deal between north and south for the referendum to be valid.
