Khartoum suspends newspaper for three days

The Sudanese government decided to suspend the independent newspaper "the political street" for three days.

The newspaper's chief editor, Mohammed Mohammed Ahmed Karar, said that the national council for press and publishing decided to suspend his newspaper because of a caricature that criticized a law that deals with the establishment of political parties, a law that is being debated currently as the government attempts to gain support from the opposition for the aforementioned law.

Meanwhile, the Sudanese People's Liberation Army said that they downed a Sudanese Mig 23 fighter jet of in Sharq al Istiwa'iyah state on the border with Uganda, where violent battles have been taking place since the middle of September with governmental forces.