PHOTOS: First day of Sudan’s general elections

Sudanese check their names on lists outside a polling station to vote for Sudan’s first multiparty elections in decades in Khartoum on 11 April 2010 (AP)

Southern Sudaneses check the registered voters list for their names, at a polling station in Juba, Southern Sudan, Sunday April 11, 2010. (UNMIS)

voting information with an official at a polling station in Omdurman, west of Khartoum April 11, 2010 (Reuters)

Southern Sudanese women check voting information with an official at a polling station in Juba, April 11, 2010. (UNMIS)

Sudanese crowd outside a polling station in Khartoum, Sunday, April 11, 2010 (AP)

Southern Sudanese line up to vote at a poling station in Juba, Sunday April 11, 2010. (AP)

A polling official explains a Sudanese voter how to cast her vote at the Sudan Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, April 11, 2010. (AP)

A poll official marks a voters hand with ink at the Sudan Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, April 11, 2010. (AP)

A voter dips his finger in the ink at the Sudan Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, April 11, 2010. (AP)

A Sudanese election official stamps a ballot paper as women vote in the town of Malakal, in Upper Nile state, April 11, 2010. (Reuters)

A Sudanese IDP woman casts her vote at a polling station in the refugee camp of Abou Shouk at the outskirts of the Darfur town of el Fasher, Sudan Sunday, April 11, 2010. (AP)

Sudan’s President Omer Hassan al-Bashir (2nd L) casts his ballot at a polling station in Khartoum April 11, 2010. (Reuters)

President of Southern Sudan Government Salva Kiir casts one of his ballots at a poling station set in a restaurant in Juba, Southern Sudan, Sunday April 11, 2010. (AP)