Last updated: 27 may, 2010 - 10:42 GMT

Sudan's president gets ready to be sworn in

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Omar al-Bashir will be sworn in as president of Sudan today.

He has been in power since taking over in a coup in 1989, but last month he won a multiparty election.

The polls were dismissed by the opposition and human rights groups as rigged, but the results have been recognised internationally.

President Bashir is a controversial figure; he is the only sitting head of state to be wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes.

BBC Network Africa's Paul Bakibinga spoke to our correspondent in Khartoum, James Copnall.

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