President Omar al-Bashir won another term in office April 26 with a comfortable majority in an election marred by boycotts and fraud allegations, becoming the first head of state to be re-elected while facing an international arrest warrant for war crimes committed in Sudan's western Darfur region.

Al-Bashir's victory was widely expected after his most credible challengers pulled out of the race to protest alleged fraud.

Sudan's first multiparty presidential, parliamentary and local elections in 24 years were a key requirement of a 2005 peace deal that ended a 21-year civil war between the predominantly Arab and Muslim north, and rebels in the Christian-animist south.

The fighting left 2 million people dead and many more displaced. The Darfur conflict, which began in 2003, is not related to that war.

AP