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Oct

2010

3:01pm, EDT

Abd Raouf / AP

Southern Sudanese women sit in buses preparing to head to southern Sudan, at a staging area 20 miles south of Khartoum, Sudan, Oct. 28, 2010. Hundreds of southern Sudanese began heading south from the capital Khartoum Thursday, ahead of a key referendum over the future of the country in January.

Going home in Sudan

msnbc.com story: Southern Sudanese head south ahead of key vote

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Hundreds of southern Sudanese headed south from the capital Khartoum on Thursday ahead of a key referendum over whether the south will secede from Africa's largest country.

Men, women and children crammed into buses piled high with luggage that left from a staging area 20 miles south of Khartoum in the latest large scale return of southern refugees from the north.

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