Sudan's south ended its independence vote Saturday, a vote most everyone believes will split Africa's largest country in two at the divide between Sudan's Muslim north and Christian and animist south.The two sides ended a more than two decade civil war in 2005 in a peace deal that provided for last week's vote. World leaders praised the people of Sudan for pulling off an orderly and safe referendum that might split the African in two. While official results will not be available for some time, independent observers have been extremely encouraged by the credibility of the process to date, Obama said in a statement.
