Country Report Sudan Outlook for 2010-11 by The Economist Intelligence Unit-The Economist

Preparations for the referendum are moving forward slowly. Agreement has finally been reached on a secretary-general for the Referendum Commission and a number of foreign donors have pledged financial support.

The SPLM and NCP have agreed not to let the expected failure to fully demarcate the north-south border by January become grounds for a delay in holding the referendum.

Lual Deng, the new national oil minister, has been the first senior member of the SPLM to express his public support for unity in the referendum vote.

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