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Voting underway in Sudan's South Kordofan

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Sudanese women wait in line to cast their votes during the election for governor and regional assembly for the Sudanese oil-producing northern state of South Kordofan in the town of Kadugli on May 2, 2011.

Key elections are underway in Southern Kordofan, a state in Sudan.

Voters are choosing the governor and the members of the state legislature in polls which run until tomorrow.

Southern Kordofan is a tense place; it contains the Nuba Mountains where hundreds of thousands of Nuba, who define themselves as African, are hostile to the Arab elite in Khartoum.

James Copnall, our correspondent in Khartoum spoke to BBC Network Africa's Audrey Brown.

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