Locals Travel To D.C. To Vote In Sudanese Election
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The future of Sudan is hanging in the balance as a referendum on splitting the nation goes forth. Villanova University sponsored a bus load of Sudanese refugees who traveled from Philadelphia to Washington D.C. on Sunday to cast their votes on the historic decision to create a new nation.
About 30 Sudanese refugees voted in the referendum which will decide if Sudan is split into North and South Sudan. Malaul DengDuot, one of the lost boys who left Sudan to come to the U.S., is now working oh his master's degree at Villanova. He made the trip with his wife and his two young children and is looking forward to the birth of the new nation. "Will be a very good nation but I believe we will still have good relation with the North because they are Sudanese," DengDuot said, "so it would be allies of the U.S., like Israel, so there would be hope for the widows, for the orphans, all victims of civil war."
He said he is hopeful that the dire situation will improve in southern Sudan and a vote for secession from Sudan is a vote for peace and for a better future.
Reported by Kim Glovas, KYW Newsradio
