President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan has ordered the border with South Sudan to be opened.
BBC: President Bashir orders South Sudan border to be opened
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has said all political prisoners in the country are to be released.
Al-Bashir is wanted by the court in The Hague, Netherlands, for alleged war crimes.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is playing a contradictory role in the South Sudanese referendum.
The al-Bashir government, by most accounts, has taken very few steps and appears to have been stalling.
President Omar al-Bashir has turned down the proposal, claiming it would be an assault on Sudan's sovereignty.
Al-Bashir met Tuesday with the Ethiopian foreign minister in the capital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's information ministry said.
CNN: War crimes charges don't deter Sudan leader from Ethiopia trip
Banda has said that Malawi would lose all-important donor support if it invited al-Bashir to the country.
Sudan asked the AU to move the meeting there after Malawi said al-Bashir would not be welcome.
Al-Bashir and Kiir agreed to reconvene another summit to discuss the final disposition of the disputed region.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir had vowed to "never give up" the disputed region, which his nation also claims.
In June, Malawi dropped plans to host an African Union summit because the organization wanted al-Bashir to attend.
President Omar al-Bashir stood firm on that during his trip to New York last week, despite appeals from U.N.
Under pressure to end the fighting, Al-Bashir in November agreed to an immediate and unconditional cease-fire in Darfur.
Al-Bashir has called the charges an attempt by Western powers to recolonize Sudan.
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The court issued a warrant for al-Bashir for alleged crimes in the troubled region of Darfur in March, 2009.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir had vowed to "never give up" the disputed region.
Last week, President Omar al-Bashir claimed that conditions in camps for displaced Darfuris were better than in nearby villages.
The International Criminal Court has demanded al-Bashir's arrest on charges of war crimes.
Malawi welcomed al-Bashir last year for a regional trade meeting when the country was led by President Bingu wa Mutharika.
The AU, the organization of countries across the African continent, has said before that its members shouldn't cooperate with al-Bashir's arrest.
The South Sudan delegation was ready to sign, but Khartoum declined and said President Omar al-Bashir would have to review the agreement.
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Malawi signed the Rome Statute that created the ICC, and President Joyce Banda said her country couldn't welcome al-Bashir because of the warrant.
In November, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir agreed to an immediate, unconditional cease-fire in Darfur, but JEM was not included in the talks.
Under a tentative peace deal, al-Bashir agreed in November to a three-phase U.N. plan to strengthen the overstretched, 7, 000-strong African Union force in Darfur.
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.
The government defended its decision not to arrest al-Bashir by saying Kenya's first obligation was to the African Union, not the International Criminal Court.
President al-Bashir claims that only 9, 000 people have died in Sudan.
Even the government of Omar al-Bashir in Khartoum came under suspicion.
But the international community already confronts a similar reality in Sudan -- it just fails to truly understand the ugly nature of President Omar al-Bashir's regime.
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