JUBA, Sudan, Jan 30 (Reuters) - More than 99 percent of voters in Sudan's south chose to separate from the north in a plebiscite intended to end decades of civil war, a referendum official said on Sunday announcing preliminary results.
"The vote for separation was 99.57 percent," Chan Reek Madut, the deputy head of the commission organising the Jan. 9 week-long referendum told cheering crowds in the first official announcement of results.
Final results are expected early next month. (Reporting by Jason Benham; editing by Andrew Dobbie)
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