Sudan's Bashir sees Islamic law, defends flogging

Sudan's president on Sunday said the country would adopt an entirely Islamic constitution if the south split away after a referendum, in a speech in which he also defended police who were filmed flogging a woman.

"If south Sudan secedes, we will change the constitution and at that time there will be no time to speak of diversity of culture and ethnicity," President Omar Hassan al-Bashir told supporters at a rally in the eastern city of Gedaref. (Reuters)