Sudanese look at an example of ballot slips at the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission offices in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on November 14, 2010.
Voter registration begins in Sudan on Monday for a January referendum that would allow the country's autonomous southern region -- which holds a majority of the nation's oil -- to secede from the north.
A United Nations panel has arrived in the East African nation to monitor the 17-day registration effort, which will take place at 3,000 sites across the country and in eight countries abroad, the U.N. said.
"We know that organizing voter registration has not been easy, given the country's size and the scale of the process, but we remain confident that it can be completed successfully," Benjamin Mkapa, chairman of the U.N. panel and a former president of Tanzania, said in a statement Sunday.
The referendum is part of a 2005 peace agreement, which ended the two-decade conflict that led to the deaths of 2 million people in Sudan.
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