DAFFA-ALLA ALI OSMAN (INTERPRETER): “Any attempts to justify the continuation of the mission, such as the issue of pending issues, would not be right.”

Those issues also include where to draw the more than two-thousand-kilometer-long border and how to share oil money. Another issue between the north and the south is Sudan’s thirty-eight billion dollar debt.

And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.

Contributing: Margaret Besheer, David Gollust, Dan Robinson and Lisa Schlein.