Sudan's official SUNA news agency reported that Bashir went to Djibouti with a ministerial delegation to attend Sunday's inauguration ceremony of President Ismael Omar Guelleh, who won a third term in office in elections last month.
The first sitting head of state to be targeted by an ICC warrant, Bashir faces charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan's western region of Darfur.
ICC statutes dictate any member country should arrest him if he visits, and Bashir has not travelled to Djibouti since he was first indicted by the ICC in 2009.
The warrants have hampered Bashir's movements outside Sudan, although a number of African countries have hosted him with impunity, including Kenya and Chad, which are also states party to the court.
Chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo accuses Bashir of personally instructing his forces to annihilate the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups.
About 300,000 people have died since conflict broke out in Darfur in 2003, when non-Arab rebels took up arms against the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum for a greater share of resources and power, according to UN figures.
Sudan's government says 10,000 have been killed.
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