Suspended Sudanese newspaper reappears after months-long suspension

KHARTOUM, March 25 (AFP) — The independent English-language newspaper, the Khartoum Monitor, has resumed publication after the Sudanese authorities lifted a four-month suspension, the chief editor said Thursday.

The security authority and the National Press Council permitted Khartroum Monitor to go on the newsstands “after I signed an undertaking of commitment to the relevant provisions of the law and constitution,” chief editor Alfred Taban told AFP.

The daily reappeared on Monday.

In late November, the government suspended the Khartoum Monitor pending an investigation into charges that it undermined the country’s interests.

At the time, Sudan’s prosecutor for anti-government crimes, Mohamed Farid Ahmed, was quoted as saying the daily did not serve the interests of the country, its people or its stability.

The Khartoum Monitor wrote about slavery, and questioned the independence of the judiciary and an expected peace agreement between the government and southern rebels, the prosecutor was quoted as saying by the Sudab Media Centre.