Omar al-Bashir has said he would take no part in foreign peace talks after South Sudan secedes from the north at the weekend.
The South Sudanese say things are bad when people stop blaming violence on former civil war enemies in the north and start accusing each other.
Southern Sudan’s vote to split from the Arab-dominated north is a "new dawn" for the giant African nation, a top UN envoy said on Wednesday.
Desmond Tutu and other members of a group of global statesmen known as The Elders on Tuesday praised South Sudan’s landmark independence referendum.
The United States said on Monday it will recognise South Sudan as the world’s newest nation as it moved to taking the north off a terrorism blacklist.
South Sudan voted overwhelmingly to declare its independence in final results of a referendum made public on Monday, with a total of 98,83%.
Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Monday he would accept the vote of the south to secede.
Nearly 99% of Southern Sudanese voters chose secession in last month’s independence referendum, clearing the way for Sudan to split in two.
Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Tuesday pledged support for a new southern state as it voted overwhelmingly to split from the north.
South Sudan won the majority it needs from a landmark vote to become the world’s newest state, preliminary figures showed on Thursday.
South Sudan has won the majority it needs to become the world’s newest state with just 60% of results declared from a vote, preliminary figures show.
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/ 18 January 2011
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday the US hoped Sudan’s political parties "seize this moment" after a referendum vote.
The marathon task of counting the ballot in South Sudan’s independence referendum was under way on Sunday after a week-long poll.
A small handful of voters were on Saturday casting ballots in the final day of Southern Sudan’s week-long independence referendum.
Organisers of a landmark South Sudan independence vote confirmed on Thursday the turnout threshold needed for it to be valid has been reached.
South Sudan’s ruling party said on Wednesday a 60% turnout threshold required for an independence vote to be declared valid has been reached.
At least 36 have died in clashes between Arab nomads and southerners near Sudan’s north-south border, leaders in the Abyei region said on Monday.
Voters standing in a second day of long lines in Southern Sudan’s capital sat patiently and rested against concrete walls for hours to cast ballots.
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/ 10 January 2011
At least 23 people have died in clashes between tribespeople and Arab nomads near Sudan’s north-south border, leaders in the Abyei region said.
Thousands of south Sudanese poured out to vote for a second straight day in a landmark independence referendum on Monday.
Millions of jubilant south Sudanese started voting on Sunday in a referendum that is expected to see their region emerge as a new nation.
The commission organising the landmark vote on South Sudanese independence said on Friday that preparations were "absolutely complete".
South Africa has sent an observer team of 35 to monitor a secession referendum in southern Sudan on Sunday.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir made his final trip to the southern capital, Juba, on Tuesday before a January 9 vote on secession.
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/ 30 December 2010
Bayak Chuol Puoch survived one of the last century’s deadliest wars, so it might be understandable that he is hesitant to risk another.
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/ 28 December 2010
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir pledged on Tuesday to help build a secure, stable and brotherly state in the south if it votes for independence.
Millions of ballot papers were delivered to South Sudan on Wednesday, removing one uncertainty ahead of a referendum on southern independence.
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/ 21 December 2010
About 55 000 displaced southern Sudanese have returned to their homeland from the north ahead of a key referendum on south Sudan’s independence.
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/ 16 November 2010
Registration centres for a referendum have opened peacefully, but officials warned that some fear intimidation and fraud.
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/ 19 October 2010
Sudan’s defence minister hinted on Tuesday that the referendum on independence for south Sudan due in January might have to be delayed.
Negotiations between north and south Sudan over the future of contested oil-rich Abyei have broken down ahead of an independence referendum.
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/ 17 September 2010
Hundreds of Sudanese packed into a hall in Khartoum late on Thursday for the country’s first public debate on independent rule for south.