Khartoum International Community School accredited by the Council of International Schools in 2010 and is authorized by the International Baccalaureate to offer the IB Diploma and Primary Years programmes. In the 2010/11 school year, KICS had 416 students. KICS then employed 124 staff of which there were 59 faculty and 23 teaching assistants. 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
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