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SOUTH SUDAN: "Free At Last! Free At Last!"
Six months ago to the day I stood in a line for five hours with friend and colleague Pasquale Ongwen, IRC's Field Manager for our program in Torit, Eastern Equatoria. With thousands of others, he waited to cast his vote in South Sudan's Referendum which would determine whether or not it would split from the north. The vote was almost 100% unanimous to split.