Opheera McDoom has been covering Sudan for Reuters since 2003 and was the only resident Western journalist to witness Sudan's north-south peace deal from its start in 2005 to this month's referendum.
In the following story, slugged SUDAN-REFERENDUM/WITNESS and headlined: WITNESS-Sudan-where did it all go wrong? She reflects on why Sudan went from so much optimism with the 2005 deal to an almost certain acrimonious split this year.
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