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Opposition parties

With Russia and China joining the growing calls for a halt to the growing border conflict, the 15-member council on Wednesday backed up African Union efforts to halt violence and get peace negotiations started.

Sudan’s government promised to deal “within hours” with South Sudan’s occupation of a vital border oilfield and the southern government said it would not leave the area.

Thatched huts have been burned and Parthesarathy Rajendran, the head of Doctors without Borders (known by its French name Medicines sans Frontieres, or MSF) in South Sudan, said thousands

The UN refugee agency has urged both governments to prevent statelessness

Sudan president Omar Al-Bashir said he accepted the outcome of the vote.

North and south Sudan fought

A total of 99.57 percent of those

A day after voting ended, the running tally at the main polling stations in the regional capital Juba showed near total support for secession with 96 per cent of the electorate making

Across the vast south, which has seen conflict with the north for most of Sudan’s post-colonial history, men and woman queued from before dawn at thousands of polling stations. Though it is a week-long poll, turnout appeared to be large on the first day, with around 50% of registered voters casting their ballots at some centres.

Judges from the International Criminal Court are due to announce on March 4 whether they will issue a warrant for the arrest

The oilfield is run by the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC), a consortium of four oil companies from China, India

Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo last month asked the court to issue an arrest warrant for Bashir on charges of genocide, war crimes