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For many South Sudanese, April elections will be their first ever. A network of officials and volunteers are racing against time to educate a mostly illiterate populace on how to vote. Edmund Yakani, the national coordinator for the Sudan Network for Democratic Elections talks of the challenges facing his people as they head to polls next month.

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