Mob torches Catholic church

A Muslim mob set ablaze a Catholic church frequented by Southern Sudanese in the capital, Khartoum, witnesses and media said yesterday.

The church in Khartoum’s Al-Jiraif district was built on a disputed plot of land but the Saturday night incident appeared to be part of the fallout from ongoing hostilities between Sudan and South Sudan over control of an oil town on their ill-defined border.