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By David Ochami in Juba
The start of South Sudanese voting for secession from Khartoum was euphoric and buoyed by optimism their referendum vote for new freedom would give Africa her 53rd republic. On the ground that ravaged by civil war patterned out along religious lines, and which claimed two million lives, they woke early to cast what many called the "vote for final freedom".
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