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WHAT FUTURE HOLDS FOR SOUTH SUDAN?

We hear from three Sudanese-Canadians who explain how they envision the soon-to-be new independent state of South Sudan and what role they intend to play there. Our guests today: Tag Elkhazin is the lead consultant at the Subsahara Centre in Ottawa; poet and writer Kuir Garang is a settlement worker with the Calgary Bridge Foundation for Youth; and former Miss Sudan Canada Suraya (Issa) Yakoub is the founder of the Centre for Women's Advancement for a New Sudan and the author of the Southern Sudan's children's book, Adrogba's Legend. ( Photo:AP Photo/Pete Muller )

Websites:

- www.subsaharacentre.ca
- www.kuirthiy.info (  )
- www.facebook.com/pages/Miss-Sudan-Canada/110209792367648?v=info

Photo: Southern Sudanese men line up to casts their votes at a polling center in Juba, Southern Sudan, on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011 Thousands of people began casting ballots Sunday during a weeklong vote to choose the destiny of this war-ravaged and desperately poor but oil-rich region. The mainly Christian south is widely expected to secede from the mainly Muslim north, splitting Africa's largest country in two.(AP Photo/Pete Muller)

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