Fears That Sudan Is Drifting To A New Civil War

Sudan Ruling Party Warns South -- Al Jazeera

Minister says independence vote results will not be recognised if southern troops remain in disputed areas.

North Sudan's dominant party has threatened to reject the results of a southern independence referendum unless the south withdraws its troops from disputed areas and allows free campaigning in the vote.

Southerners are just over 100 days away from a vote on whether to stay part of Sudan or declare independence.

Haj Majid Suwar, a senior member of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), said "we may not recognise the results [of the referendum]" in answer to reporters' questions as to what the NCP would do if southerners did not allow open campaigning and did not move their troops.

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