After a row over who should control the oil ministry, Sudan's president, Omar Bashir, announced a unity government with former rebels from the south as part of a peace accord reached earlier this year.
So last month, when Sudan's President Omar Bashir, an ex-general, ordered the army to remove Mr Turabi from the speakership, the Egyptians were delighted and, together with Libya, began to advance a new peace plan.
Approval of the hybrid force for Darfur marks a major turnround for Sudan President Omar al Bashir's government.
Now commercial flights between Ethiopia and Sudan have resumed, and President Omar el Bashir of Sudan has had a chat with the Ethiopian prime minister, Meles Zenawi, in Djibouti in May.
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.
President Omar al-Bashir has turned down the proposal, claiming it would be an assault on Sudan's sovereignty.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir had vowed to "never give up" the disputed region, which his nation also claims.
President Omar al-Bashir stood firm on that during his trip to New York last week, despite appeals from U.N.
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 South Sudan delegation was ready to sign, but Khartoum declined and said President Omar al-Bashir would have to review the agreement.
CNN: Sudan denies report that South Sudan downed its fighter jet
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.
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.
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.
The most controversial of its 13 indictments has been that of Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, who was held responsible for the suffering in Darfur.
However, last week, Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir accused the international media of "exaggerating" the situation in Darfur to detract from atrocities in Iraq, the Palestinian territories and Somalia.
President OMAR AL-BASHIR (Sudan): And we will miss an opportunity.
Sudan claims Heglig's oil fields, which account for about half of the nation's oil production, and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir had vowed to "never give up" the disputed region.
CNN: South Sudan says it is withdrawing from disputed oil region
But at the same time Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, at a meeting in his capital, Khartoum, with France's new foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, insisted that only Africans should be deployed.
Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, for instance, is so proud of the new Merowe dam in the north of his country that he made it a selling-point in his recent election campaign.
Mr Thomas points out that the CPA survived the death of the southern leader John Garang in 2005, and the indictment of the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court in 2009.
He called on Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir "to stop the slide towards further confrontation and urges both sides to return to dialogue as a matter of urgency, " the statement said.
President Bush directed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to consult with the United Kingdom and other allies on a new United Nations Security Council resolution to strengthen international pressure on the Sudanese government of President Omar al-Bashir.
Talks between Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir concluded in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, where the two agreed to temporary arrangements over a disputed oil-rich region claimed by both countries.
As you explained, the indictment of President Omar al-Bashir could be deferred in order to consider an alternative court in Sudan, but the Security Council would be misusing the original intent of Article 16 of the ICC's governing statutes.
When Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and South Sudan President Salva Kiir met again in early 2013, they agreed to temporary administrative and security arrangements for the Abyei region, including the creation of a police service and a limited governing council.
The political leadership of the southern Sudan People's Liberation Movement are due to meet next week to decide whether to back Omar al-Bashir for the presidency in April 2010, or to put up their own candidates in conjunction with a range of northern political parties.
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