Why was I not aware of the Sudan referendum?

[TheLogLady]

and what does it mean?

oil?

christian vs muslim?

and why does the sudan have the highest maternal mortality rate in the world?

Try listening to R4's Today Programme. They're covering it right now....

British News coverage is really very parochial.

Maternal death rate: it had high death rates for just about everything. It's a very poor country, which has had civil wars for years; it's fringed on being a failed state, little/no infrastructure. Malarial, at least in places.