Results from Sudan's first multi-party election in 24 years, originally expected on Tuesday, have been delayed indefinitely by the national election commission.<br /><br />"We cannot set a definite date to announce the results because [the counting] is a very complicated process," Hadi Mohammed Ahmed, the head of the committee, said.<br /><br />International observers from the European Union and the US-based Carter Centre have said the elections did not meet international standards.<br /><br />The opposition has said the vote was rigged and that they will not accept the results.<br /><br />The election is likely to see the re-election of Omar al-Bashir, the incumbent president, who seized control of Africa's largest country in a military coup backed by Islamists in 1989.<br /><br />Since the end of the election, in which southerners also voted for the leader of their semi-autonomous government, the election commission has been announcing the results of the legislative polls as they become available.<br /><br />So far al-Bashir's National Congress Party is sweeping the boards.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow, reporting from northern Sudan, says al-Bashir could still win international acceptance for his victory.<br /><br />The international community is more concerned with Sudan maintaining a semblance of stability, he says, as it heads toward a 2011 referendum that could split the Christian and traditionalist south from the Muslim north.<br /><br />But while the Sudanese people await an announcement, some are worried about the future. There are fears that there could be an outbreak of violence. (20 April 2010)
