Khartoum International Community School Khartoum International Community School Khartoum International Community School (KICS) is a private English medium International School established by the DAL Group in 2004. Located on a purpose-built campus in the Hai El Raqi area south of Khartoum, Sudan, KICS caters for students from age of 3 to 18 years. KICS is accredited by the University of Cambridge to offer IGCSE examinations. In addition to its academic programmes, KICS offers a diverse range of extra-curricular activities. School teams compete in a range of sports as well as representing the school at a variety of international conferences and academic pursuits. KICS was
Khartoum (state) Nile State, and in the west by North Kurdufan. There are several etymologies for the name of Khartoum. The explanation suggested as "most correct" by the state government's website is that it comes from the Arabic for "elephant's trunk", which describes the shape of the site of the city at the confluence of the two Niles, where a stretch of land extends into the water. Other stories are that it is a corruption of "gurtoum", the name for seeds of the sunflower plant, supposedly used by Roman invaders at the current site of Khartoum to treat soldiers' wounds, or that