Khartoum-based

Southerners say the Khartoum-based government repeatedly sought to delay the vote, withholding funding and citing logistical difficulties and unresolved disputes.

Sudan President: I'll Support South If It Secedes AP 2011

Some say the partition of the country creates for the Khartoum-based Republic of Sudan a new set of southern states within its re-drawn borders.

North and South Sudan: Challenge of Forming Cooperative Ties 2011

The U.S. already has offered Sudan's Khartoum-based government a range of incentives for a peaceful southern vote, including removal from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.

Carter: International community should erase Sudan's debt 2011

He said he expected the Khartoum-based government to honor the poll's results.

Polls close in South Sudan's independence test 2011

But the south splits the oil revenue with the Khartoum-based northern government, which owns the pipelines, refineries and ports from which the oil is exported.

Work Begins for South Sudan Will Connors 2011

While the Khartoum-based Sudanese government has been vilified for carrying out genocide in Darfur and for invading Abyei — a central region contested by the north and south — last month, the reports obtained by AP raise serious questions about human rights abuses carried out by southern forces, known as the Sudan's People's Liberation Army, and about how much control their leaders have over them.

Hundreds of civilian casualties in S. Sudan battle 2011

The referendum marks the final stage of a 2005 peace agreement that ended 22 years of war between the Khartoum-based Sudanese government, in the mainly Muslim north, and rebels based in the mainly Christian and animist south.

Southern Sudanese in Washington area, across world prepare to vote on separation Tara Bahrampour 2010

The referendum marks the final stage of a 2005 peace agreement that ended 22 years of war between the Khartoum-based Sudanese government, in the mainly Muslim north, and rebels based in the mainly Christian and animist south.

Southern Sudanese in Washington area, across world prepare to vote on separation Tara Bahrampour 2010

Another complicating factor: Southern Sudan is scheduled to hold an independence referendum Jan. 9, a vote that is likely to lead to separation from the Khartoum-based north.

Jimmy Carter Inches Towards Stunning Accomplishment AP 2010

The SPLA, a guerrilla movement that fought a 23-year civil war against the Khartoum-based government, is still in the early stages of transformation into a professional army.

Humanitarian Workers Targeted By Soldiers In Southern Sudan 2010