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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Permit delays, lack of funds and security intimidation are obstructing international and local observers from monitoring registration for Sudan's first ever nationwide elections, former President Jimmy Carter's foundation said on Tuesday.
These and other hindrances could diminish the ability of the center — the only international group Sudan invited to monitor the process — to verify the vote's fairness, the group said.
Sudan is holding its first parliamentary and presidential elections in all regions of the war-torn country next April. The elections are a key part of the 2005 peace deal that ended more than two decades of north-south civil war. Two million people died in the war, which devastated the country's oil-rich south.
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