Khartoum Monitor was lifted. Khartoum Monitor Khartoum Monitor is the only private English-language newspaper in Sudan. It was established by journalists from southern Sudan in 2000. The newspaper is known for its independent news and editorial policy and its refusal to accept the censorship policy of the Sudan government in particular articles on southern Sudan the ongoing war and the peace process led to its licence being cancelled and it being fined earlier Its journalists have been under threats from the Sudanese government and its former editor Nhial Bol had to flee the country after being jailed earlier. Later the ban on
Khartoum recently as the 13th-17th centuries A.D. Captain J.A. Grant, who reached Khartoum in 1863 with Captain Speke's expedition, thought the name was most probably from the Arabic "qurtum" ( ', i.e., "Carthamus tinctorius"), which was cultivated extensively in Egypt for its oil to be used as fuel. Some scholars speculate that the word derives from the Nubian word, "Agartum" ("the abode of Atum"), the Nubian and Egyptian god of creation. Other Beja scholars suggest "Khartoum" is derived from the Beja word, "Hartoom" ("meeting"). Additionally, the dream-interpreting magicians in Genesis 41:8 are referred to as חַרְטֻמֵּ֥י מצרים("Khartoumei Mitzrayim" - Magicians of