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SUDAN / VOTER REGISTRATION

Voter registration for Sudan's first Presidential and Legislative elections in nearly a quarter of a century, due to be held in April, kicked off on Sunday. UNMIS

Duration:02:46Date:02 November 2009

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United Nations Mission in Sudan, POLITICAL AND LEGAL QUESTIONS, MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND SECURITY, SUDAN

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STORY: SUDAN / VOTER REGISTRATION
TRT: 2:46
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /ARABIC / NATS

DATELINE: 2 NOVEMBER 2009, HIA SEMINAR, SUDAN / 31 OCTOBER 2009, JUBA, SUDAN

SHOTLIST:

31 OCTOBER 2009, JUBA, SUDAN

1. Wide shot, marching band
2. Med shot, youth marching with register to vote sign
3. Med shot, marching band
4. Med shot, group of people
5. Close up, an artist calling people to register
6. Close up, registration posters
7. Wide shot, President Salva Kiir entering his office
8. Med shot, President Salva Kiir
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Salva Kiir Southern Sudanese President:   
“We have struggled for long to bring about true democracy in our country, and the forth coming general elections will be a great achievement in our continued march towards real democratic transformation in our country.”

2 NOVEMBER 2009, HIA SEMINAR, SUDAN

10. Med shot, voter registration office under a tree
11, Close up, ‘register to vote’ sign
12, Med shot, Peter Santino being registered
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Santino, high school student:
“In the elections we are going to vote for people who can bring for us change because we have been suffering here for long time. Since God created us or this country we are in suffering. There is no good leadership in our country, there is no good administration, we have died a lot so we need to abolish all those things that was happening in the past. There is slavery in this country there is cheating and with this elections we can bring change.”
14. Med shot, Susana Erestos being registered
15. SOUNDBITE (ARABIC) Susana Erestos voter:
“I am voting because it is going to help me expressing my rights”.
16. Med shot, Lise Grande, UN Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Southern Sudan.
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Lise Grande, UN Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Southern Sudan:
“The United Nations in Sudan has just embarked on one of the large distributions of voter registration materials in any where in the world. The United Nations Development Program and the UN peacekeeping operations in Sudan, UNMIS, will together be distributing more than one hundred and twenty thousand kilos of registration materials.”
19. Wide shot, Hai Seminar streets

STORYLINE:

Voter registration for Sudan’s first presidential and legislative elections in nearly a quarter of a century, due to be held in April, kicked off on Sunday (1 November).

The general elections will be the first in Sudan since 1986, three years before President Omar Al-Bashir toppled a democratically elected government in a bloodless military coup.

Addressing the Southern Sudanese from his office in Juba on the eve of the registration day, Southern Sudanese President Salva Kiir called on all people of voting age to be registered to vote and called upon all State Governors County Commissioners to mobilize the people to register and facilitate the work of the National Election Commission.

SOUNDBITE (English) Salva Kiir, Southern Sudanese President:   
“We have struggled for long to bring about true democracy in our country, and the forth coming general elections will be a great achievement in our continued march towards real democratic transformation in our country.”

The President urged all the people of voting age eighteen and above in all parts of Southern Sudan to take this exercise very seriously by registering to vote.  He extended a special call on women and youth who, he said, are the strong pillars of democratic institutions.

Peter Santino lives in suburb of Juba called Hai Seminary. He was among the first to register, for him voting means bringing change to the way people used to live in the past.

SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Santino, high school student:
“In the elections we are going to vote for people who can bring for us change because we have been suffering here for long time. Since God created us or this country we are in suffering. There is no good leadership in our country, there is no good administration, we have died a lot so we need to abolish all those things that was happening in the past. There is slavery in this country there is cheating and with this elections we can bring change.”

Susana is 24 years old and a mother of two. This is the first time she is going to vote.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Susana Erestos, voter:
“I am voting because it is going to help me expressing my rights.”

The United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) are kicking off the largest-ever delivery of voter registration materials in dozens of inaccessible and remote locations in Southern Sudan.

SOUNDBITE (English) Lise Grande, UN Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Southern Sudan:
“The United Nations in Sudan has just embarked on one of the large distributions of voter registration materials in any where in the world. The United Nations Development Program and the UN peacekeeping operations in Sudan, UNMIS, will together be distributing more than one hundred and twenty thousand kilos of registration materials.”

The materials – including registration kits, forms and training supplies – will be sent to locations identified by the National Elections Commission (NEC).

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