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Closure order on ‘Khartoum Monitor’

    NAIROBI

    Sudanese authorities have ordered the temporary suspension of Sudan’s only English-language newspaper, the ‘Khartoum Monitor’, the BBC reported on Tuesday. Government officials said the closure had been ordered from Tuesday because of allegedly inflammatory articles published by the paper. In one article, the paper published statements by an official in southern Sudan which accused the north of plundering the riches of the south. The paper’s editor, Albino Okeny, told a French news agency that the closure was a severe.

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