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The people of Sudan’s Darfur have voted not to reunite the multiple states of its conflict-torn western region into one entity, the option favoured by the central Khartoum government, the Darfur referendum commission said on Saturday.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The vote was boycotted by major rebel and opposition groups who believe the Sudanese government’s splitting of Darfur into three states in 1994, and later into a further five states, led to heavier Khartoum control and helped trigger fighting in 2003.<\/p>\n

The state referendum commission said 97 percent of voters chose to keep the multi-state administrative system and that 3.08 million people of a total 3.21 million eligible voters turned out.<\/p>\n

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