Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was scheduled to travel to the southern capital of Juba earlier this month to meet with his counterpart Salva Kiir.
Knowing that the clock for independence is ticking in the southern capital, Juba, northern leaders may be seeking a few extra concessions, not least over the division of oil revenues.
"I have instructed Sudan's authorities and civil society to open up to their brothers in the Republic of South Sudan, " Mr Bashir said in a speech in the southern capital, Juba.
BBC: President Bashir orders South Sudan border to be opened
The Ninjas have attacked Brazzaville twice, in December and again in January, leaving the southern suburbs of the capital deserted and a haven for looters who are mostly government soldiers.
KARBALA, Iraq (CNN) -- The early stages of the "battle of Baghdad" may have begun Wednesday morning as U.S. forces advanced around the southern arc approaching the Iraqi capital.
The 33-year-old policeman died while trying to close off the area in a southern suburb of the capital following the bomb warning.
The ancient capital Beijing and the southern commerce and industrial hub of Guangzhou grew nearly as rapidly.
The father works for the French company GDF Suez and is based in Yaounde, the capital in southern Cameroon.
The MQM dominates politics in the city of Karachi, the capital of the southern province of Sindh.
The volcano last erupted in 1997 destroying many southern areas including the capital, Plymouth.
Shiite Muslims, including Hazaras, have often been targeted by Sunni extremists in the province of Baluchistan where Quetta is the capital, the southern city of Karachi and northwestern Pakistan.
The agencies reported that the areas around Cotonou, the commercial capital, and along the southern coastline were among the hardest hit regions.
Hellstern said he was moved to see distraught children and parents reunite at the school of about 700 students in Moore, a southern suburb of the Oklahoma capital.
In 2009, Mr Maliki won a landslide in the provincial elections in Shia southern Iraq and in the religiously mixed capital, Baghdad.
China has officially opened the world's longest high-speed rail route, linking the capital Beijing with the southern commercial hub of Guangzhou.
Islamists who last week captured Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, tightened their grip on the southern half of the fragmented country by taking Jowhar, which had served as a temporary capital 90km (55 miles) north of Mogadishu.
Also, we will have regenerated the largest derelict site in southern England close to the heart of the capital.
It took four days to travel from the Afghan capital of Kabul to a Marine outpost in the southern part of the country.
Just before sunset, when Muslims break their daily Ramadan fast, three roadside bombs exploded within a few minutes of each other at the crowded al-Tameem market in a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad's southern outskirts, police officials in the capital said.
After the Soviet withdrawal, we saw that no government in Kabul, before the Taliban capture of that capital, was able to control the central and southern parts of the country.
The clash at the university, in the southern city of Shiraz, shows that demonstrations have spread beyond the capital.
The bombings in Iraq's capital and the country's Shiite-majority southern region focused on civilian targets such as bus terminals, public markets and clusters of workers during the morning rush hour.
Which means that banks in southern European countries will have the most capital to raise.
In retaliation, Israeli planes bombed an anti-aircraft battery in southern Lebanon and flew over the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
His parents had traveled from Guangdong Province in southern China and settled in the capital city Antananarivo (and eventually owned several restaurants).
Petra is an ancient city that was sculpted out of sandstone cliffs in the southern deserts of Jordan to become the capital of the Nabataeans.
Various witnesses told private Somali news outlets, including Shabelle Media Network and Garowe News, that at least two masked men shot Maalim in the southern district of Waberi in the Somali capital.
Al-Shabaab, a militant Islamist group that controls much of southern Somalia and is active around the capital Mogadishu, has been battling the country's weak transitional government for years.
Though some Bristol, Leeds and Manchester especially have kept their heads above water, job-creating dynamism seems once again to be mainly in southern and eastern England, and especially the capital.
"This is South Korea's Guangdong province, " says Kim Chin Kyung, referring to China's southern province that is the recipient of so much investment capital from Hong Kong.
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