Sudan Elections - A cotton cultivator drops his ballot paper into a box during voting at Messelemiya. Polling in the direct constituencies for the Sudan Parliament, which began on November 15, is staggered over a period of ten days. Wad Madani, capital of the cotton province of Blue Nile, went to the polls on November 20, and Messelemiya, a village in the Gezira cotton area itself, polled on November 21. November 26, 1953. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).