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Recent Africa highlights
Last updated:Â 24 november, 2009 - 09:57 GMT
Nuba mountains
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In Sudan preparations are underway for historic elections due in April, preceded by voter registration all of this month.
The polls are a key part of the peace deal that ended Sudan's bitter north-south civil war and they're also being viewed as especially important for those areas contested by both north and south.
The ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Peter Martell has travelled to one of those disputed regions, the remote Nuba Mountains at the very centre of Sudan, from where he sends this report.
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