Sudan newspaper closed by police

The Sudanese authorities have shut down a newspaper for publishing details about the murder of a journalist in defiance of an official ban. The independent daily Al-Sudani was ordered to close indefinitely following the brief detention of its editor-in-chief Mahjoub Urwah and one of its reporters. All Khartoum newspapers had been banned from making any reference to the case of Mohammed Taha Ahmed, chief editor of the pro-Islamist Al-Wifaq paper, who was killed in September. (Via IOL.Central Africa)