A SUDANESE court has found a newspaper editor and a journalist guilty of libelling the local government and ordered them to pay one billion Sudanese pounds in damages. Amal Abbas, Sudan’s only female newspaper editor, and staff reporter Hassan Ibrahim were also fined 15 million Sudanese pounds each or three months in jail for the article which accused the local government of corruption. The court said the information in the article, written by Ibrahim in August, was incorrect and damaging to Khartoum state. Abbas and Ibrahim, who said they would appeal, have been imprisoned because they could not afford the fines, the paper said. – Reuters