Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, is to address a rally in Darfur, the region in which the International Criminal Court (ICC) has accused him of carrying out war crimes.
Attendance at the rally in the city of El Fasher in northern Darfur on Sunday is in line with al-Bashir's defiant stance against the ICC arrest warrant issued last week.
Al-Bashir is said to be surveying the humanitarian situation and security in the area, as well as speaking to supporters.
The ICC has made the unprecedented move of charging al-Bashir, while he still holds office as head of state, on crimes of attacking civilians in the western Darfur region.
Al-Bashir, danced in front of supporters wearing a traditional feathered head dress, outside the Friendship Hall in Khartoum, the capital, on Saturday.
There he defended his expulsion of more than a dozen foreign aid groups.
'Spies and thieves'
He said the aid workers are "spies" and "thieves", and his supporters burnt in effigy an ICC official.
"No matter what they do, they will not sabotage peace," al-Bashir said.
"This is our right, these soldiers are our sons. Nobody will die in the south. We will not fight each other.
"We will protect the peace. In two years the southerners will decide - do they want one Sudan or two states?"
Sudan expelled 13 of the largest aid groups after the ICC's warrant was issued. Now, there are concerns for the lives of more than a million people.
Arab League support
Amr Moussa, the Arab League's secretary general, met al-Bashir at the presidential palace on Saturday, to discuss this issue.
Earlier Moussa said the ICC decision provoked the "anger of the Arab League."
He said it would support al-Bashir in facing threats against Sudan.
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Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, wearing a southern traditional dress, attends a protest with southern Sudanese people against the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for him, in Khartoum March 7, 2009.
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