+4:3 Sudanese residents react to independence of South Sudan

Описание: (9 Jul 2011)
1. Wide of anti-South Sudan rally, police directing traffic in foreground
2. People in cars waving and wearing Sudanese flag
3. Policeman watching rally pass by
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul Bakiyousif, Sudan Youth Union Chairman:
"Now Sudan is separated and we all love Sudan like one country. All citizens will live under a unified Sudan and we tell our brothers in the south of Sudan that Sudan will stay unified and I wish and hope, God willing, that Sudan will return to a unified country."
5. People in cars waving and wearing Sudanese flag
6. Sudanese flags hanging from front of car
7. Wide of people taking part in anti-South Sudan rally
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Vox pop (no name given), Khartoum resident:
"People will need time to get accustomed to the new situation. But until then there might be some trouble between the two countries."
9. Pull-out from Sudanese flag on windscreen of car to anti-South Sudan protesters standing on street
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Vox pop (no name given), Khartoum resident:
"I feel very sad because this is a part of Sudan which has been chopped off. I never wished for this separation. I swear to God as a Sudanese citizen that I feel very bitter. But if they think that is going to benefit the country then so be it."
11. People in cars waving Sudanese flags as they drive down street
12. Wide of people on street, one man draped in Sudanese flag
13. Men at newsstand
14. Headline reading (Arabic): "Goodbye"
15. Various of newsstand and men with papers
STORYLINE:
The euphoria that greeted South Sudan's independence on Saturday did not stretch as far as Khartoum, where hundreds protested against the creation of the world's newest nation
A convoy of demonstrators drove through the city, with many waving the flag that's no longer officially recognised south of the border.
Youth Union Chairman, Abdul Bakiyousif, summed up the reluctance of the protesters to accept South Sudan as a sovereign nation.
"All citizens will live under a unified Sudan and we tell our brothers in the south of Sudan that Sudan will stay unified and I wish and hope, God willing, that Sudan will return to a unified country," Bakiyousif said.
Another protester warned of possible tension ahead.
"People will need time to get accustomed to the new situation. But until then there might be some trouble between the two countries."
The black African tribes of South Sudan and the mainly Arab north battled two civil wars over more than five decades, and some two (m) million died in the latest war, from 1983-2005.
It culminated in a 2005 peace deal that led to Saturday's independence declaration.
South Sudan is expected to become the 193rd country recognised by the United Nations next week and the 54th UN member state in Africa.

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