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.
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.
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.
