The deceased, Habibu Almu, who was an Assistant Comptroller of Immigration, was stabbed to death at his home in the Khartoum last Thursday.

According to Sudanese news agency SUNA, the police "arrested the offender, a foreign woman who committed the crime".

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The authorities, however, did not reveal the nationality of the killer and the details of the murder.