Young returnees from north Sudan smile in Aweil in the northern Bahr el Ghazal state in south Sudan December 29, 2010. People from Sudan's oil-producing south are widely expected to vote to split away to form Africa's newest nation in a referendum scheduled to take place on January 9, 2011 that was promised in a 2005 peace deal ending a civil war between north and south. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (SUDAN - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY)