Eek-A-Mouse wins elections in Southern Sudan?
 

" Sudan.. how ya feelin? Yee ha!"

Salva Kiir sworn in as Southern Sudan president




South Sudan's president sworn in

Salva Kiir, the leader of south Sudan's former rebel group the SPLM, has been sworn in as the first elected president of the semi-autonomous southern region.
It follows his landslide victory in April's elections, part of the peace deal that ended a 21-year civil war between north and south.
Next year, the people of Southern Sudan will vote on possible independence.
A BBC correspondent in Juba says it is widely believed that, given a free poll, they will vote in favour.
Most of Sudan's lucrative oil is in the south, and the exact boundary with the north still has to be defined.
'Battle for unity'
The BBC's James Copnall in Juba says Mr Kiir is more of an old soldier than a natural politician.
But in becoming south Sudan's first elected president Mr Kiir faces huge political challenges, he says.


We shall never allow ourselves to be driven back to war



Southern Sudan's leader Salva Kiir

The region is one of the least developed on Earth - one of the reasons for long civil war that ended in 2005.
At his swearing-in ceremony, where dancers, dressed in beads and ostrich feathers, joined the celebrations, Mr Kiir did not advocate directly for either independence or continued unity.
But he did say the battle for unity has almost been lost - a heavy hint about which way he thinks southerners will vote - directly criticising President Omar al-Bashir's National Congress Party.
"Our partners in the National Congress Party were not in a hurry to take concrete measures to keep Sudan united.
"The entire interim period has thus been allowed to lapse without serious and meaningful actions to achieve that goal. Now that time has practically run out, a sense of panic seems to be setting in as people realise that the battle for unity is about to be lost."
Our reporter says the remarks would not have pleased Ali Osman Taha, Sudan's second vice-president, who represented Khartoum at the ceremony.
'Mistakes'
But the bulk of Mr Kiir's speech set out his agenda and governing philosophy for the next five years.
He admitted he had made mistakes in the five years he has, in effect, run the south.
He also promised to cut down on corruption, and to increase the percentage of women in every level of government.
Mr Kiir's Sudan People's Liberation Movement has had to turn from a fighting force to one that governs.
He was keen to stress there was no chance of a return to north-south war.
"We shall never allow ourselves to be driven back to war," he said.
Many inside and outside of Sudan are worried that the tensions linked to the referendum, and the fact the south has much of Sudan's oil, could lead to a new civil conflict.

Terry Ganzie or GTFO

E-E-M can be VP

I think thats the way it already is, the southern president is the national VP..


apparently I-roy is alive and the new president of Nigeria

i have no idea what you guys are talking about, can you provide a wikipedia-free excerpt? i'm curious but don't feel like reading a treatise at the moment.

priceless.
bang bang biddy bang bang biddy bang..

like many threads it is difficult to read because of all the stupid photos people insist on putting in their signature files...

Any bearded black guy wearing a trilby has won the election in Southern Sudan.

hahahahahahahahahahaha what a cunt.

"I could've won what if I grew a beard?"

its funny in like the way a sub human racist's incoherent thought processes are funny to look at.

I believe ni'k is a bigot.

against what? you? then yes.

Ni'k doesn't like us white folk. The queer is always quick to hurl baseless, political posturing shite like "racist" as if it's confetti at a wedding whenever he discovers the colour of our skin.

yes, why not. suffer the wrath of my racist confetti. your fragile white identity breaks apart from its papercuts.

I'm not the one suffering an identity crisis.

i'm curious to hear what my identity crisis is?

sort of.. of course I do believe you have to have seen Eek-a-Mouse perform in the cowboy hat and throw out his trademark "yee-ha" to get that joke, but when I saw the BBC report all I could think about was Eek ;)

I hope yr not aiming at me, I thought after 6 years the whole white rasta thing was accepted..

It was aimed at the middle class white boy ni'k who can't decide whether he's black or asian.