Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir hailed victory and reaffirmed his hard line on the rebel region as the International Criminal Court (ICC) shelved further investigation of war crimes in Darfur.
The apex court had indicted Bashir for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in crushing the Darfur revolt in 2009, reported News 24.
Bashir reaffirmed his refusal to address Darfur alongside a separate but closely-linked insurgency, started by former civil war fighters left in Sudan after South Sudan seceded in 2011.
Darfur has been embroiled in conflict even since non-Arab tribes took up arms in 2003 against the Arab-led government in Khartoum after accusing it of discrimination.
According to a UN estimate, the unrest has killed 300,000 people and displaced two million.
The court's prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said on Friday that she was shelving the Darfur probe due to lack of support from the Security Council, the UN body that could take coercive measures to force Bashir and co-defendants to face the court.
The ICC had charged Bashir's defence minister, interior minister and a militia leader but none has been arrested. Sudan has been shielded against any further action at the Security Council by China, a veto-wielding permanent member.
