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South Sudan has reached the 60% turnout needed to pass the referendum on secession from the north, the south's ruling party and ex-rebel group says.、60%Hundreds of southerners have returned home to take part in the landmark vote on independenceThe 60% threshold has been achieved but we are asking for a 100% (turnout), the SPLM's Anne Itto said.She did not give exact figures, but said it was based on polling centre reports for the first three days of the week-long vote which began on Sunday.The poll was agreed as part of the 2005 deal to end the two-decade civil war.The Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement have been running the region since that peace agreement.Official turnout figures - which along with the preliminary result, are not
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