Alfred Taban

Taban is a Sudanese broadcast journalist working as the BBC’s correspondent in Khartoum. Born 1957 in Kajokeji, Sudan, Taban is the managing editor of the Khartoum Monitor, the only independent English-language newspaper in Sudan. In July 2005, speaker of British House of Commons, Michael Martin, presented the Speaker Abbot award to Alfred Taban in recognition of his work exposing the slaughter in Darfur. In 2006, Taban was one of three recipients to be presented with the National Endowment for Democracy award by US President George W Bush.