SUDAN on Monday ordered the temporary suspension of the civil war-torn nation’s sole English-language paper, the Khartoum Monitor. The NPC ordered the daily banned for three days starting on Tuesday for articles said to have damaged relations between the southern part of the African nation, where rebels are fighting the north for self-determination. “The punishment is severe and will cost the paper a lot,” said editor-in-chief Albino Okeny. The paper published statements by an official in southern Sudan accusing the “northerners of having plundered the riches of the south.” The SPLA, the rebel force in the mainly animist and Christian south, has been fighting successive Arab and Muslim governments in Khartoum since 1983 in a bid for self-determination. – AFP