Sudanese National Election Commission (NEC) gets a visit from former U.S. President Jimmy Carter

story by Sudan Watch

Sudan Elections: NEC announces start of polling - Ex U.S. President Carter congratulates NEC for excellent progress

Juba residents participate in a prayer service on the eve of the country's elections in Juba, Southern Sudan, Saturday, April 10, 2010. The people of Southern Sudan will cast ballots in a national election for the first time in more than two decades when a three-day election beginning today -- Sunday April 11th., 2010. Despite the first-in-a-generation vote, most people are already looking past the elections to a vote next January considered far more significant: a referendum on independence that could signal the birth of a new African nation, if final negotiations with Khartoum over oil rights and the location of the border are worked out peacefully. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A Sudanese Muslim boy prays in front of a mosque, near Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, April 10, 2010. The election posters and slogan-filled T-shirts blanketing this town underscore a new excitement in southern Sudan, which will cast ballots in a national election for the first time in more than two decades, when a three-day vote begins Sunday. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

A Sudanese National Election Commission (NEC) worker prays while her colleagues stand near polling boxes at a polling station in Al Fasher, northern Darfur April 10, 2010. (Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)

Darfur activists on Sudan Elections 2010 : http://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2010/04/darfur-activists-on-sudan-elections.html

As election crisis unfolds, Darfuris and U.S. advocates call on Congress to exercise more oversight over faltering Sudan policy:
http://www.enoughproject.org/news/election-crisis-unfolds-darfuris-and-us-advocates-call-congress-exercise-more-oversight-over-fa