Sudan Ruling Party Says It May Reject Results of Referendum

Sudan’s ruling party said it may reject the results of Southern Sudan’s vote on independence in January unless the south allows free campaigning and pulls troops out of disputed areas.

The authorities in Southern Sudan have stifled campaigning and deployed their soldiers outside of areas stipulated by a 2005 peace agreement that ended two decades of civil war between the north and south, Haj Majid Sowar, the National Congress Party’s mobilization secretary, told reporters today in Khartoum, the capital.