Southern Sudan President and elections candidate Salva Kiir waits to casts one of his ballots at a poling station set in a restaurant in Juba, southern Sudan, Sunday April 11, 2010. The people of Southern Sudan will cast ballots in a national election for the first time in more than two decades as a three-day election begins Sunday. 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)
